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...Sloan went on to say that higher automobile prices seemed inevitable, though GM's profit margin is not yet distressingly slim (13% for the June quarter).* Gloomed Mr. Sloan: "Much might be said as to the effect of increased selling prices on the course of the recovery movement........ . The hope might be expressed, however, that sooner or later the fact will be recognized that sound and desirable progress, reflecting a higher standard of living, never can be made possible by the policy of arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing efficiency, without regard to the effect on real prices...
...certain industries like automobiles there was no doubt that the margin of profit was narrowing. Chrysler Corp., in spite of its five-week strike last spring. sold 629,706 cars and trucks in the first six months of 1937. a record; It took in $409,000,000 compared with $358,000.000 in the same period last year. Yet profits were down from $29.000.000 to $27,000,000. Even in the June quarter when Chrysler had little to charge off to strikes, the company's profit margin showed a sharp drop, from 19.8% in 1930 to 14.7% in 1937. Labor...
Significance. Most observers in Washington credited Senator Robinson's boast that he had enough votes to pass his Court bill if it could be brought to a vote, but his margin was slim, depending heavily on freshmen Senators elected last autumn. Although he claimed upwards of 50 out of 96 Senators as supporters, the Democrats who led the 16 minority Republicans in opposition included some of the ablest, most experienced members of the Democratic ranks. They included many who had been expected to find reason for swinging back to the Administration's side on the compromise bill, such...
...from the Pacific Coast), to rural v. urban population (e.g., 56% from cities, 44% from the country), to economic levels, sex, age, occupation, color, size of community. Only adults are interviewed. Results are believed to be accurate for the U. S. as a whole within a 2 % margin of error...
...record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under the scrutiny of science...