Word: dept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goldman Sachs. Simplest measure of a successful banking house is the success of the issues it has backed. Many are the winners that Goldman Sachs has sponsored. It brought out a Lambert Pharmacal issue at 41¾, Woolworth at 55, May Dept. Stores at 50, Continental Can at 52½, S. H. Kress at 60, Sears Roebuck at 50, United Biscuit at 28. Special pride is taken in National Dairy Products, issued three years ago at 33. The stock has paid a 33⅓-stock dividend, followed by a 100% stock dividend, is now selling...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...
Such was the alarming prophecy, last week, of able Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce. He was recalling the ancient and modern history of the commodity of rubber. Columbus, exploring the island of Hispaniola, was the first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat...
Experience has taught the U. S. Post Office Dept. that the public uses about 3,200,000,000 stamped envelopes each year. Accordingly, finding its supply low, it advertised last month for bids to supply envelopes over a period of four years, in the amount...
Unusual attention met the appeal of the Post Office Dept. For the first time in 58 years, more than two companies submitted bids. And when the three offers were examined, last week, Postmaster General New found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world...