Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimed another triumph last week: network color television had been tested and proved. Using the Bell System coaxial cable, CBS had broadcast a Technicolor movie short and color slides from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and return...
...short, many a company found that, with taxes lightened, it could outfoot rising costs. And in the booming market, it could sell all it could make, do better than it had hoped. For those who had been struck into the red, this was a cheering note. Before the year is ended, they too might make up what was lost at the start...
What should be done, said Johnson, is to establish personnel departments which would see that workers get: 1) a sense of security, 2) fair wages and short hours, 3) qualified and fair-minded foremen and department heads, 4) opportunity for advancement, 5) consideration as individuals...
...running Paris' Banque Franco Asiatique, dabbling in French politics, performing feats of financial legerdemain for all comers-at a fee. He was also playing the French money market. Result: in 1935 the French Government ran him out of the country for selling francs short (he made a reported three million francs [$210,000] doing...
...Corporation. Never one to be caught short himself, Serge had meanwhile been building up control of the Chosen Corp., Ltd., a British concern which owned Japanese companies operating gold mines in Korea. By 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War threatened to wipe out his interests, Rubinstein smartly sold Chosen's Far Eastern properties for $1,700,000 to a Polish friend. The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis...