Word: users
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million carloads of autos, trucks, parts, tires...
...third famed official yacht is the Apo, assigned to the Governor-General of the Philippines. She, too, was without an official user last week, owing to the departure of Statesman Stimson for the U.S. (see col. 2). As the Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart...
...Welsh tin plate manufacturers conferred, last week, on problems of growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
...York Stock Exchange last week surpassed all previous spectacles. From the floor a ululant howling roared; brokers milled around; pages and messengers doubled around huddles of bidding brokers; brokers chanted a litany of bids & asks at each other, and sweated like the marching monks in Tannhäuser. Visitors in the iron-railed balcony peeked at the madness below for a few minutes, and were politely hurried out by grey-dressed attendants. When Friday was done the brokers were glad that the Exchange governors had decreed Saturday a day of rest. In five days of trading they had handled...
...paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...