Word: walle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When he has the public, as well as wind and rain in his hair, Parry takes comfort from a poem pinned on the wall of the New York Weather Bureau...
...largest U.S. producer of wallboard and similar wood products last week took over one of its biggest customers. In return for 81,250 shares of its own stock (current value: around $4,550,000) Masonite Corp. bought control of Marsh Wall Products, Inc. of Dover, Ohio, No. 1 finisher of Masonite wallboard. For 23-year-old Masonite, the deal will enable it to turn out finished products (doors, panels, etc.) for sale to the building trade. For Marsh Wall, it marked a new chapter in a happy saga of family enterprise...
Around the Tree. Marsh Wall Products, Inc., the fourth and largest of the family's companies, was started in 1930, almost ended when a fire razed its plant and equipment in 1935. Starting up again from scratch, the brothers now have a business that employs more than 300, grossed $6,000,000 this year. They sold their 80% interest in it (Marsh friends and dealers and Masonite officials own the rest) in line with the trend among family enterprises to consolidate with bigger corporations, thus make assets more liquid to pay such things as inheritance taxes...
...well-kept secret. For several months, Pan American Airways' canny President Juan Terry Trippe had been dickering with American Airlines' Chairman C. R. Smith. But not till last week did any hint of the dickering leak out. This week, as Wall Street began to buzz with rumors, Juan Trippe sprang the news. American had agreed to sell Pan Am its transatlantic subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines...
...Wall Street's "Maggie & Jiggs" Forecaster Frederick N. Goldsmith, 83 (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 29) was permanently enjoined last week by the New York State Supreme Court from selling any more stock-market letters. The court ruled that as Goldsmith got his tips from the comic strips and departed spirits (instead of "recognized sources") and did not inform his clients of his sources, his letters were worthless...