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...never published a financial report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales in the preceding 40 years were $350,000,000. Fellow tradesmen put boom-year gross at $20,000,000. much less today. Present seneschal of Tiffany tradition is six-foot, grey-haired John Chandler Moore, whose grandfather was vice president under the first Tiffany. To friends, John Chandler is a kindly, dignified gentleman who wears high, stiff collars, tightly knotted ties...
Raymond Huff proceeded to make WPA history, putting up school buildings at less than contract cost. Using 300 laborers and only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
Plans. Before PM's first month was over it scrapped its Press Department and also its Business Department (which was designed to interest the masses by stories about small tradesmen, etc., rather than about industry). It also revised and improved its front page, dropping a large box that listed radio programs, in order to enlarge its headline, picture space. For another month or more, Publisher Ingersoll intends to go on experimenting...
...Poor for actors & showmen, bookkeepers & cashiers, coal miners, editors & reporters, farm laborers, firemen, fishermen, lawyers & judges, longshoremen, musicians, policemen, railroad workers, stockbrokers, teamsters, telephone operators, commercial pilots, building tradesmen, fruit farmers, office clerks, stenographers, railroad porters, streetcar conductors...
...into the First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President's taste...