Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profits were up fivefold, from $5,709,599 to $25,345,771. While the industry's car and truck sales rose 47.1% above the first half of 1938, Chrysler's rose 56.1% (the industry excluding Chrysler rose less than 40% in spite of the effect of the May-June strike troubles on Chrysler). Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share) yields...
Next he made a pair of crutches from limbs of a nearby tree. In spite of pain and weakness he began hobbling along the tracks. What happened in the hours that followed no one knows. At the end of seven hours, a mile from the patch of weeds where he had left his amputated foot, he fell fainting before an astonished train crew...
...competitors on war or peace as well as recovery or depression when he goes to market. In the spring of 1937, when commodity prices threatened to run away, Goodyear bought heavily, and when Depression II got under way, Goodyear had to take a $10,343,000 loss-in spite of which Goodyear had enough operating profit left over...
Firestone, which shoes the wheels of most top-flight U. S. racing cars, publishes its half-year report at the end of April. Last spring it had encouraging news for its stockholders in spite of the fact that one of its major customers, Motorman Henry Ford, is rapidly expanding his own tire production in the River Rouge plant. For fiscal 1938's first half (October-April) Firestone turned a net income of $2,429,738. This year's six-month...
...Enterprise. Shannon stayed put for three years, then went to New Orleans. Five months later he wired Publisher Etheredge that he was tired of wandering, would rather live in Beaumont than any place on earth. He got his job back and has been there ever since-in spite of occasional carouses (for which he would always apologize in 2,000-word letters), in spite of threats to inefficient assistants to "come around the desk and get you," in spite of a sit-down strike he once conducted to get a good assistant a raise. Shannon took the assistant...