Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year. Public utility companies have pushed sales to their customers to build up power consumption. At the forefront of the expansion have been General Electric, Kelvinator, General Motors (Frigidaire), Westinghouse. Servel's Electrolux has led the gas field. During the Depression many a smaller manufacturing concern has added electric refrigerators as a profitable sideline. Examples: Crosley Radio Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co. (radios), Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments)-all concentrating on the low-price field. In addition, a large number of independent companies have mushroomed throughout the land, usually buying and assembling the parts. Refrigerator men who have grown...
...York has three subway systems. Though I. R. T. is the largest, it is controlled by smaller Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. Chairman of both is grinning, square-jawed Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime director of Cleveland's traction properties, later a trouble-shooting vice president of Chase National Bank. Together the two lines daily hurtle 5,000,000 New Yorkers up & down their rocky island, under and over the East River to Brooklyn and the Harlem River to The Bronx. The city's third system is municipally owned. Though it carries no passengers yet, its empty trains have rumbled...
...confused are: 1) Branch banking, in which a central institution maintains offices apart from its head office. Example: Bank of America N. T. & S. A., with 410 offices up & down California. 2) Group banking, in which a holding company controls one big bank and a group of smaller banks which draw upon the experience and facilities of the central institution. Example: Marine Midland Corp. with 22 banks built around Buffalo's Marine Trust Co. 3) Chain banking, in which a string of small banks are controlled by a holding company or individual but having no kingpin institution...
...bonds and mortgages. Mounting policy loans have given life officials the greatest concern, followed by farm mortgages. R. F. C. credit has removed the threat of wholesale railroad defaults. Federal credit agencies have bolstered the farm mortgage situation. But policyholders of many a company will probably this year receive smaller dividends to credit against their premiums...
...rubber doll. Flesh tints are ingrained, the skin soft, the limbs flexible. There is no interior bracing to make it heavy and cumbersome. James Taylor, head of the doll division, says that it was first manufactured only in an 18-in. size, but that the cry for smaller sizes forced them to supply dolls down to 10 in. Dollman Taylor's division has been operating on a 24-hour schedule for several weeks tc take care of advance orders for ''My Dolly...