Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Narrowed Gap. More important, U.S. department-store sales, which had lagged woefully behind 1948, were also on the rise. For the first week in November, although still 2% under 1948 for the U.S. as a whole, they were from 1% to 15% above last year in eleven major U.S. cities...
Fuller Shelves. Many retailers had already cleaned up their inventories too thoroughly. Last week they were busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen 4.8% in 1949's first half over the same period last year, to an annual rate of $194.6 billion, and personal savings had almost doubled...
Though earnings of the family-owned Ford Motor Co. have always been and still are a mystery, some facts about its dividends and ownership came out last week. In a report to Detroit's Probate Court, Clara Ford, widow of Henry the First, reported that the company paid out two dividends amounting to $4.50 a share for the year ending last July...
...days, turned out nearly 500,000 Mis, along with more than 500,000 Garands. The Olins ran the St. Louis Ordnance plant, turned out a total of over six billion loaded rounds of ammunition. At war's end Franklin Olin stepped down as president (at 89, he is still a director), and John, long the big wheel in fact, took over...
...unending search for titles that will make good reading on theater marquees, Hollywood is still hard to satisfy. Among the latest title changes: Where Men Are Men to Fancy Pants; A Mother for May to Father Is a Bachelor; Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy to A Place...