Word: files
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plume for Zenith's past, staying power and present rewards belongs to resourceful President Eugene Francis McDonald Jr. Born 48 years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., he left Syracuse University to work in the Franklin Automobile plant pushing a bastard file through aluminum. Before the War he went to Chicago, there to sell Fords on the installment plan, then sternly disapproved by frugal Henry Ford. After a couple of years in the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked...
...credit is "ledger experience," the record of how bills were paid in the past. Local credit associations collect ledger experience from their members, pass it on to a national clearing house in the National Association. Between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 credit records are always on file for the use of members...
...organization that watches personal credit is the National Retail Credit Association, which will hold its annual convention this week in Omaha. Unlike NACM, NRCA has no central credit exchange. But records of no less than 60,000,000 U. S. chargers are on file with local credit bureaus in more than 1,000 cities. The Credit Bureau of Greater New York has 3,000,000 alone. These local credit bureaus are, in the main, non-profit-making organizations owned by their members, mostly stores, and any charge account not paid in 120 days must be reported. Delinquencies are entered...
...before the workers. They booed. The Mayor then went to New York to see Mr. Rand, returned to try another ballot. On the strength of some 400 votes the company declared the plant open a week after the closing. Less than a half-dozen workers got through a double file of 900 pickets. Meanwhile machinery was being shipped out of Syracuse to Elmira and Ilion...
Opened last week with columns & columns of speculation was the annual season for trying to figure out how much money Henry Ford made in the previous year. Basic element in this statistical sport is the balance sheet which Ford Motor Co. has to file to do business in certain States. Starting points in the game are changes in surplus and reserves. These are also the stopping point because there is no way of telling what charges were made against these accounts or how much was paid in dividends to the two stockholders, Henry Ford and Son Edsel...