Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Sewell Avery of Chicago, whom you list-isn't he chairman of Montgomery Ward and isn't he secretary of the Liberty League...
Last week the Ward Line, now operating as New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., offered to pay about 400 claimants against it an average of about $3,000 apiece. Of this $1,250,000 total, $890,000 would go to Morro Castle plaintiffs and the balance to Mohawk plaintiffs. In the case of the Morro Castle, which burned in September 1934 with a loss of 124 lives, about 80 suits have been entered for passenger deaths, 30 for crew deaths, 225 for personal injuries. Claims in the case of the Mohawk, which a few months after the first tragedy collided...
...Wood: "Our tax bill for the fiscal year . . . was $6,535,704, the largest in our history except for the War year 1918, and $2,000,000 greater than for the year ending Jan. 29, 1935. This does not include sales taxes, excise taxes or processing taxes." Said Ward's Avery: "The company is required to file annually more than 1,600 tax returns.* The amount of $5,221,000 (equal to $1.14 per share of common stock) represented the company's direct expense for income, property, and similar taxes...
...number of prosperous years in the soap business his father-in-law started in 1809. Sapolio itself, named by the Morgan family doctor, was not manufactured until 1869 by Enoch's three sons. Its world-cleansing career began in 1883, when a high-powered adman named Artemas Ward* was hired to push Sapolio sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store in the U. S. He sent four salesmen to England at a time when virtually no one sent salesmen abroad. One of them was King C. Gillette, inventor...
...when Adman Ward left the company to do independent advertising work, Sapolio's decline had definitely begun. As powdered scouring soaps entered the market, Sapolio sales dropped steadily, amounting in 1932 to only $300,000, less than the oldtime advertising budget alone. Morgan's experimented with a powder in 1913, in 1915, and again in 1930, but Spotless Town had lost its appeal. But not until this year did the company develop a new and improved powder for which it was willing to try another Sapolio revival...