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Word: stetsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Shoe Co. showed an $8,416,000 profit for the fiscal year through November, a slight drop. Endicott Johnson Corp.'s income ($1,974,000) was also off a little from the year before. But it was a good year for hats. Philadelphia's John B. Stetson Co. swelled its profits from $301,000 to $485,334, while Hat Corp. of America (Knox, Dobbs) reported net income of $923,000 in the year through November compared to $779,000 in fiscal 1935. It was also a good year for clothing. Said President Mark W. Cresap of Hart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, the John B'. Stetson hat plant shut down last week when 2,500 members of United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers, a C. I. O. union, walked out for a 25% pay raise, union recognition, better working conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Walter Biddle Saul, member of the Board of Education, partner in Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, counsel for Philadelphia Co. as well as for such bigtime Philadelphia enterprises as John Wanamaker and John B. Stetson. Said he: "I was and still am proud of the work which my office and I did in connection with the reorganization of Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Philadelphia Shocker | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...John B. Stetson University (DeLand, Fla.) President Guy Everett Snavely of Birmingham-Southern College...... LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos (Cont'd) Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Last week, after hundreds of careful time measurements between Paris, Green wich and the U. S., Dr. Stetson had perfected an alternative explanation: The signals do actually vary in speed because they choose different paths across the world. On some days they lope along near the equator, where the terrestrial magnetic field is weak, and keep up to, or very close to, the speed of light. Other days they go by way of the polar regions, where the strong magnetic field slows them down. As to why the same signal should stray one way one day and another the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stray Waves | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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