Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating profit is handsome but it is wholly inadequate for Armour & Co. In the post-War slump when J. Ogden Armour lost his fortune, Armour & Co. took a terrific beating, emerged from reorganization with a debt of $144.000,000. Its funded debt is still $91,000,000. T. G. Lee could do this simple bit of arithmetic: add to $6,000,000 (interest charges), $4,000.000 (guaranteed dividends on the preferred stock of its subsidiary, Armour & Co. of Delaware) and $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 (for deprecia- tion) and the total makes over $17,000,000 that Armour...
...inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated by becoming a bathing...
...Curtis collected $73,000,000 from advertisers. Even in 1930 after the slump, Mr. Curtis's $67,000,000 was more than double the revenue of any other group. The Saturday Evening Post, for which Editor George Horace Lorimer gathered the world's largest circulation (today: 2,900,000), alone accounted for $47,000,000 while Mr. Curtis's Ladies' Home Journal stood second with $15,000,000. The nearest any other magazine came was Good Housekeeping's $12,000,000. By last year Curtis Publishing Co.'s net profits were down...
Whereas Mrs. McLean wanted to buy the Post for herself and her sons, Mrs. Abbott, childless, asked a receivership for the Defender. (Presumably, however, she hoped to get it for herself.) Whereas the Post admittedly has been losing money for years the Defender has picked up after its Depression slump and, according to its owner, is making a little money. According to the owner's wife it is worth $1,000,000. (Eugene Meyer got the Post last fortnight for only $825,000.) Fun-loving "Ned" McLean could not be bothered with business. Round-faced Publisher Abbott was kept...
...last week $6) at $119; etc., etc. But the public did not respond to Blue Ridge as it had to Shenandoah. Blue Ridge began to sell off-and then, while it was still being traded on a when-as-and-if-issued basis, came the slump...