Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bring a Tub. When the tree is found, it is marked. Then, in October, when the bees have stored all the honey they are going to for the season, the tree is cut down, or, as bee hunters say, "taken up." Bring a tub, advises Edgell. "The humiliation of returning...
Author Edgell concedes that in taking up a tree, even with veils, gloves and smudges, a sting'or two must be expected. But he loves wild honey.
The Department of Commerce, shuffling through its latest statistics, last week found that the "overall picture appears to be one of sustained underlying demand." According to the Department's Survey of Current Business, the slump came largely because businessmen satisfied the demand for goods out of inventories, instead of...
According to union statistics, the steel companies could afford to pay. For the first half of 1949, the union said, profits of the 19 leading companies were estimated at $301 million, up 54.6% from 1948's first half (when operations were slowed down by a coal strike). In fact...
But when the steelmen tried to say so, they put their foot in it. "[The] irregular procedure," said Bethehem Steel Corp.'s President Arthur B. Hgmer, "appears to be designed merely as a vehicle for forcing upon us important concessions." He was cut short by Board Member Samuel Rosenman...