Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard H. Waldo, 58, an oldtime magazine man, is president and editor of McClure Newspaper Syndicate which distributes, besides articles for publication (Calvin Coolidge was its all-time high), a "confidential letter" printed on a pink sheet "not for publication." Recently this pink sheet quoted a partly identified business executive as talking bloodthirstily about a White House assassination. Quoting "a New York specialist," the pink sheet, in another issue, had described the President's Southern fishing jaunt as a disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations...
Last week in Massachusetts the Ford Motor Co. filed its balance sheet as required by State law, providing the annual glimpse which the public gets of Ford finances. It did not show, of course, what dividends had been paid but it showed an increase of $19,689,000 in profit & loss account, of $6,737,000 in reserves indicating that the company has salted away $26,-427,000 during 1936, over seven times as much as in 1935-With a total surplus of $600,000,000 Ford Motor Co. is well prepared for a costly strike now or later...
...Crucible Steel and American Steel Foundries. Just before the Institute began its deliberations, S.W.O.C. took a more drastic step. It was not yet ready to call strikes against big Bethlehem and National Steel, but it issued a strike call in the plants of three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some 75,000 men quit work, and 15% of the Steel industry shut up shop in the midst of its busiest season in years, an ideal strike season from Labor's viewpoint...
...heavy industry pond, voluntarily began signing contracts with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the steel industry rapidly followed suit. Only possible obstacles to complete organization of Steel were the major independents, Bethlehem, Crucible, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, American Rolling Mill. Fortnight ago the storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management agreed to stake all on a labor election to determine by majority vote whether or not S. W. O. C. should have exclusive...
Catholic papers do not make much money. Each diocese has its local sheet, usually vended near the church on Sunday. Price of the paper (1? to 5?) seldom covers the expenses of the publication. Advertisements are often of the sort not acceptable to the lay press. Manhattan's Catholic News, which bears the recommendation of Cardinal Hayes as "a friendly, newsy paper," carries the advertising of foot masseurs, $2 doctors, "a Gonzaga University Priest Chemist's" preparation for the hair. Our Sunday Visitor of Huntington. Ind., which is running a big religious picture contest similar to Old Gold...