Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went in as president of CO. at $10,000 a month. Last week President Whiteford resigned, unable to collect pay from his insolvent employer. Typical of Hopson corporate architecture is the fact that Whiteford turned out to be the first and only employe CO. had had in at least eight years. Reason: all top officers had been paid by Hoppy personally, who then billed their services down the line to the operating companies CO. controlled. Last check, drawn in January, by Associated's two top holding companies was for $5,000 worth of penny postcards and printing to notify...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
...Belgian affiliate the United States Lines last week sold eight battered Hog Islanders, none built later than 1921, all doomed to be scrapped within two years. Price for the lot: $4,000,000, something like five times their scrap value. Of the 86 American ships put out of European service by the Neutrality Act, this left only three still unemployed...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...
...event of war there would be a blackout of American liberties and our free institutions within forty-eight hours. Our government would be as dictatorial as those of the fascist or nazist nation...