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...like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings in the capital goods industries were up about 80%, in the consumer industries, about 40%. Bread & Meat-Standard Brands, Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, Chase & Sanborn Coffee) made $14,727,000 compared to a satisfying $12,744,000 in 1935. Ward Baking Corp. made $1,838,000 compared...
...grabbed by twelve mechanical shovels, the dynamite had been laid. All was nearing readiness for the festive blowoff and the newshawks, standing at a safe distance, plugged their ears, braced themselves for the shock. At that moment an electric engine rolled up drawing two cars of black powder. Five workmen and a foreman started unloading...
...some unexplained manner the black powder exploded, prematurely set off the dynamite charge...
...drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife and eight children, the powder exploded, razed the house, killed three...
...Trust Co.'s meeting a fourth-generation Chicago banker was elevated to the board of his family's bank last week-Solomon Byron Smith, 31, vice president son of President Solomon Albert Smith, a grandson of that bank's founder and a great-grandson of a powder salesman who helped found what was later the cornerstone of big Continental Illinois...