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...Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear. Three days after the Dionne Quintuplets were born, Papa Oliva Dionne signed a contract with Promoter Spear to exhibit himself, his wife and ten children* at Chicago's World's Fair under the auspices of the Century of Progress Tour Bureau. Net revenues, including photographic rights, were to be divided: Tour Bureau 70%, Papa Dionne 23%, Rev. Daniel Routhier (Papa Dionne's manager) 7%. For signing the agreement Papa Dionne...
Ambassador von Ribbentrop did net hurry in August to his new post. In early October he was still in Berlin and 17 visiting members of the French Chamber of Deputies cornered him at a tea with this question: "Can you assure us that the settlement of the World War is now final insofar as any German claims are concerned?" Flushing darkly, von Ribbentrop finished his tea at a gulp, stalked off to Das Büro Ribbentrop. His 15-year-old son, he presently announced, would go in England to swank Westminster School, although there is in London a special...
...Just think of it!" crowed President Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel fortnight ago after announcing his company's 1936 profits. "We earned a net of $13,901,000 last year against $4,291,000 in 1935, and started 1937 with $123,690,000 of unfilled orders on our books. We have never faced anything like so good a situation in peace times. Why, we started the extraordinary year of 1929 with only $86,000,000 of unfilled orders on our books...
...Johnson Corp.'s income ($1,974,000) was also off a little from the year before. But it was a good year for hats. Philadelphia's John B. Stetson Co. swelled its profits from $301,000 to $485,334, while Hat Corp. of America (Knox, Dobbs) reported net income of $923,000 in the year through November compared to $779,000 in fiscal 1935. It was also a good year for clothing. Said President Mark W. Cresap of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in reporting earnings of $484,000 as against $273,000 the year before: "Profits are still small...
...compared to $3,175,000 in 1935. From bananas, ships and sugar United Fruit Co. made $14,176,000 last year as against $10,359,000 the year before. The white-uniformed salesmen who cry their wares from U. S. roadsides helped Good Humor Corp. increase its net income from $291,000 to $404,000. The Fuller Brush Man was apparently turned away from many a doorstep in 1936, for Fuller Brush Co. reported a dip in profits from $261,000 to $169,000. Radio Corp. reported earnings of about $6,100,000, up $1,000,000 from...