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...December 1939, 48,609,983 were working. Increase by Miss Thompson's subtraction: 1,865,983. Increase by old-fashioned subtraction: 2,265,983. In those ten years the population had upped 10,000,000. Of this increase, 38% would normally be expected to have reached working age. Net loss in employment, therefore...
...American: guts). Where the softer Liths and Latvians and Estonians had scared out cheaply, the Finns had once again proven their durability and burnished their national honor. They had incidentally made it plain to the Russians that they would be a very troublesome people to govern, and if any net gain had accrued in putting up a game but hopeless fight instead of selling out for bargain rates to begin with, this...
...success of Walt Disney's first full-length feature picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was a blow. It meant that henceforth they would play second fiddle in the animated cartoon kingdom. For Cartoonist Disney, Snow White grossed $4,677,863 in 1938-39, jumped his net to a record $1,250,130 for 1939, launched him on a new kind of business with new problems: big-time feature production...
...good days, when American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Co. were separate companies making (together) $20,000,000 a year (their joint 1939 net profit: $3,712,193), U. S. plumbing was both the butt and admiration of Europeans. Radiator's chairman was autocratic Clarence Mott Woolley. By the time they consolidated in 1929, they had an estimated stake of $35,000,000 in foreign plants to make goods that would raise Europe's standard of plumbing to that of the U. S. Of their 15 European plants, nearly half were in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain. In that...
Last year Excavator LeTourneau's depression-reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau...