Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILD, WILD WOMEN - Virgil Partch-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...John Sloan Dickey, President of the College, announced that the wage hikes were made possible by favorable financial results for the college year ending June...
Sentimentalist. In Fort Wayne, Ind., attendants at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home noticed a mourner fondly clasp the hand of the deceased, later noticed that a $150 ring was missing from the corpse's finger...
Died. John Sloan, 80, dean of U.S. artists; of cancer; in Hanover, N.H. When he began painting in the 1900s, Sloan's earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face...
...hike in taxes) would bring a much sharper cut in earnings. G.M. was right. Though total sales were actually up slightly over 1950 (to $3.9 billion), G.M.'s net fell 42% to $280 million, its margin of profit from 11% to 7%. The drop, explained Chairman Alfred Sloan, showed the effect of lower passenger car sales, higher taxes (up 40% to $508 million), higher costs without compensating price boosts and "the lower margin of profit realized in defense work." As low-profit defense work becomes a major factor in total production, it will cut earnings of other companies well...