Word: p
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nipped Heels. With old-fashioned competition now in full cry, the race was to the swift, but not necessarily to the biggest. Some giants were holding their own; e.g., Procter & Gamble. Under its hard-selling new president, Neil McElroy, who worked up through P. & G. advertising to the presidency last October, the company boosted its net from $13.2 million to $19.7 million (a gain of nearly 50% for the Sept. 30 quarter). International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson turned in a $24.7 million net for the nine months, up 16%, while most of his rivals felt declines. But many...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...
...letter was signed by B. P. Schulberg who, at 57, had reaped the rewards of a full Hollywood producing career: money, enemies and some impressive credentials. He was the man who discovered Clara Bow, dubbed Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart," helped to form United Artists, produced Wings, which won the first Academy Award. As Paramount's production boss from 1925 to 1932, he had drawn $9,500 a week...
...release of the students was apparently arranged by Bernard A. Barr, a New York attorney, who asked to speak privately with the judge before the nine a.m. trial. Barr, in town for the weekend, spoke with Judge Arthur P. Stone for five minutes, following which the judge let all the students go with a payment of $5 costs...
Score (Freshmen)--Harvard 37, Princeton 19; Harvard 24, Yale 33. Princeton 17, Yale 40. Winner, Maxwell (P); Kimmins (P); Forsler (P); Judy (H); Mills (P); Garlofarlo (Y); Kimball (H); Ellis (Y); Adams (H); Ringwalt (P); Little (H); Sprague (Y). Time...