Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nineteen-year-old Daily News, 1,738,667 daily and 3,233,407 Sunday readers, has the biggest circulation in the U. S. In a modest way, Publisher Thomason has also emulated this kind of success. In four years, the Times's circulation has grown from 152,813 to 349,855, passing Hearst's morning Herald & Examiner and lacking about 80,000 to equal Hearst's evening American and Colonel Frank Knox's evening News. The Tribune, with a daily circulation of over 825,000, remains Chicago's biggest paper...
...rowing critics like to attribute the success of the Varsity boat to the outstanding stroking of Spike Chace who has handled the number eight position for four full years at College. Tom Bolles thinks the six-foot-four, 194-pound pacer is one of the finest oarsmen in the country, probably the best that Harvard has ever had. In every race this year it was Chace who kept the bladesmen at the cool 32 beat which may prove a dilemma to Captain Johson's confident Blue outfit...
...training in March if he thinks they are getting in top form too soon. He permits his jumpers to jump only once a week, spend the rest of their time doing gymnastics to develop muscles and low hurdles to perfect their stride. But modest Dean Cromwell insists his success is due to the Grade A material he gets from Southern California high schools, where 6-ft. high jumps and 9.8 hundreds are the rule rather than the exception...
Forest. As Mr. Rice showed it, Alcoa's management ever since the company was founded in 1888 as Pittsburgh Reduction Co. has been dominated by one idea: to control every last sale of aluminum in the U. S. Its success, claimed the prosecutor, is indicated by the fact that a $100 share in the company in 1890 has by now yielded a par value of $8,760, that some $100,000,000 has been paid in cash dividends in the past 48 years, that Alcoa admittedly controls 100% of the virgin aluminum production in the U. S., that everyone...
...Most famed Wall Street success during Depression I was that of Atlas Corp., Floyd Odium's tremendous investment trust. How Atlas is faring in Depression II showed last week in its semi-annual report.. Between Oct. 31, 1937, and April 30, 1938, Atlas' net assets dropped from $71,229,929 to $56,565,662, its common stock's asset value, from $13.36 to $9.44 per share...