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With the technical advice of three grownups, J.A. members rotate the dull jobs and the executive ones, decide the relative merits of expansion v. current dividends, ponder how to stay solvent (they rarely go broke). In peacetime they concentrated on gadgets-cigaret boxes, desk sets, junk jewelry, garden furniture. War hit them with just about all the troubles that plague their elders, except contract renegotiation and absenteeism (which is rare, since the six to twelve hours of weekly work is fun at wages that run up to 35? an hour...
...started. It may burgeon if the tax relief proposed in the 1942 Revenue Act becomes law (TIME, Sept. 7). All railroads can then purchase their own bonds at discounts without paying taxes on the paper profits. (This privilege now belongs only to those in financial difficulties.) If the still-solvent roads use most of their available funds for bond retirement they might retire $1 billion of their $7 billion debt next year. The not-so-solvent railroads are scaling down their debts in court...
...sound publishing property. It had fought its way put of heavy depression losses ($500,000 m 1933). Taking cognizance of the new luxury-clipped realities, it had unloaded Vanity Fair and The American Golfer, tapped wider audiences with Hollywood Patterns and Glamour. What it needed now to keep it solvent was shrewd management. Condè-Nastians agree that President "Pat" Patcèvitch promises a more solvent future than anybody else in sight...
...solvent U.S. railroads are now earning their fixed charges better than two and a half times over, but some of their bonds are still selling at discounts up to 40%. On March 2, to be exact, some $5,000,000,000 of nonbankruptcy rail bonds had a market value of about...
...around the clock freezing past due accounts. When their stores opened this week, they found that they had about 25% fewer able-to-charge customers. Frozen were the accounts of many an old and valued patron. Strange and wonderful were the tactfully worded notices from credit managers to these solvent but delinquent payers...