Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulwark of Democracy." Whatever the fate of Finland, Scandinavia proper remained a prosperous, progressive and almost defenseless "Bulwark of Democracy," much better worth defending than were Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland...
...when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since 1909 (gross...
...Concrete Man Turner, who looks more like a Groton headmaster than a building contractor, for his achievement in keeping his staff together in spite of the vicissitudes of the volatile U. S. construction industry. Including Vice President (for Philadelphia) H. C. Turner Jr., who has only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years...
...construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another $15,000,000 worth of business. Its contracts billed in 1938 amounted to only...
...which had sold Breeze common stock to the public. In August 1938, SEC slapped down a stop order, charged that Breeze had overstated the value of its patents and its future sales prospects, implied that such rapid expansion should inspire conservatism in the corporation's statement of its worth. After subsequent amendments, the order was lifted...