Word: unitedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state, for instance, that the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company is trailing the five leaders. You do not state whether this trailing is in volume of dollar sales or in volume of unit sales. As a matter of fact, this information is not available to you, inasmuch as you have not asked us for it, and there is no other source through which you can secure it. Obviously, you were guessing...
...Mary chapel is to be a memorial to Father Burton's mother, Mrs. Caspar Burton of Cincinnati, who long ago gave the land for it. The main unit of the monastery, in Architect Cram's finest medieval style, will be in memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House...
...bank confines its expansion to its own State. Transamerica functions not as a bank but as a holding company. Thus Transamerica keeps within the letter of the law of the 1935 Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation . . . and the status of the nation's banking structure will be clear...
...Administration and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden. The WPA's Federal Music Project, which has some 16,000 musicians on its rolls, wished to weld 210 members of three New York City WPA orchestras and a WPA symphonic band of 75 into a single unit for one big concert. Colonel Kilpatrick, who last spring offered $1,000 for the best suggestion to make his Garden pay during the summer, wondered if popular concerts might not be the answer. Although the WPA evening barely half-filled the house at 25? to $1.65 he considered the experiment...
Ranking abreast of Kimball is Baldwin Piano Co., which also consigns products to dealers, is consequently called in the trade "that banking house." In third place is Winter & Co. Winter goes in for low-priced pianos, stands near the top in unit production. One of its models is a "pianette" at $99.50 built to compete with Japanese pianos, which cost $4 to make, sell in the U. S. for $50. Aeolian American Corp. has been slipping in the past few years but still holds fourth place in dollar volume with such big names as Chickering and Knabe...