Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition of economy layoffs. To keep its members employed and to checkmate an excuse some publishers have used to discharge active members, Guild negotiators are meeting with increasing success in obtaining guarantees against economy layoffs for periods of four months to one year. The fact that newspapers must be produced every day even during depression helps to make such provisions feasible for the Guild...
Speculative buying of hides, however, has centred in New York where nine years ago a market in hide futures was started for hedging operations. Last week, Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, eyeing New York's success, started a hide futures market too. At the end of the first day Chicago's new market had handled $79,000 worth of business, precisely half the New York total...
...cream. He was a cadet in the Russian revolution, defended the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (he never thinks of it as Leningrad), got across the Finnish border with a band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer...
...across from its main Manhattan office, National Safety opened a branch devoted solely to CheckMaster accounts. By last week, when Banker Efron and other National Safety executives quietly cut into a cake to celebrate CheckMaster's third anniversary, the idea was an open-and-shut success: the base of deposit banking had been broadened considerably. Sixty-one U. S. banks were using the CheckMaster Plan; 250 more were using similar plans. National Safety had 40,000 active accounts, 35,000 more temporarily inactive, and was collecting $350,000 a year in fees...
...reporter has met foul play, gradually uncovers the evidence herself. The other is a mousy, 17-year-old waitress who knows the weak point in Pinkie's alibi. To shut the waitress' mouth, Pinkie cold-bloodedly makes love to her, meets with complete and, to him, nauseating success. "She loves me, she loves me not," he muses with characteristic humor, carefully pulling off the wings and legs of a fly. To shut the mouth of one of his own gang, Pinkie, pushes him off a staircase. Before long he is on a murder merry-go-round...