Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaints against maintenance are legion--the case of the nine dollar chair which is repaired for seven; the piano moved after the dance for twenty-five; or the spot on the wall which gets the room painted, at a cost resented whether high or low. All typical of the popular gripes, they are usually followed by charges of padding, graft, mismanagement and outright corruption. A closer study points to a different picture. The chair doubtless required several hours work by a skilled carpenter in addition o the time expended in transportation form the House or office to the maintenance building...
...Wall Street had been prepared to expect, the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week announced that it was in the black for the first nine months of this year (TIME, Oct. 13). K-F joyfully informed stockholders that the company had made a profit of $8.3 million in the third quarter, after a loss of $2.2 million in the first six months. The overall profit of $6.1 million, said K-F, was tax free under the carry-forward tax provision. (K-F's $19.3 million loss in 1946 makes profits up to that amount tax free.) The report, said...
Despite this glowing report, many a Wall Streeter still had doubts about how the company would do as the auto market became more competitive. So far, K-F has made 113,694 cars and sold them all. But some K-F dealers are running into difficulties because of K-F's prices. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that K-F dealers offer the highest trade-in allowances on used cars, and thus, in effect, cut their K-F prices to stimulate sales. But neither Henry Kaiser nor his smart son Edgar was worried. They hope to turn...
...ition. Manhattan's Wall Street Journal bought what was said to be the largest magazine ad ever. In a 48-page spread in next week's Advertising Age, the Journal reproduced ads from all business advertisers in its 26 September issues. The cost: $16,800, plus printing and layout cost...
...Yardling line, 84 pounds heavier and ages wiser than the schoolboy forward wall, had no trouble clearing paths for their backs or in stopping the Exeter runners. Bill Rosenau and Pete Coyne, first string guards, were both injured in the hard line play. Coyne, however, was able to return to the game...