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Into the extremely select circle of U. S. corporations whose annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billion Sales | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Last week a select portion of the U. S. public was permitted to buy stock in Shenandoah Corp., a newborn investment trust which came into being with a silver spoon of $102,000,000 resources in its mouth. Eager, the public snapped up one million shares of common, one million shares of preferred, paying up to 42 for common offered at 17½ and up to 60 for preferred offered at 50. By midafternoon of the first day's sale there was no Shenandoah stock available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: De Priest Sequelac | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Church shall have the right to select its priests, who will then be duly registered with the Ministry of the Interior (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Masses | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...satisfied, the President said: "After many years of contention we have at last made a constructive start at agricultural relief. . . ." Soon he was again given cause for satisfaction. Congress appropriated the $150,000,000 required to start the machinery set up in the new law (see p. 12), to select "farm-minded" members of the New Federal Farm Board. There were some 200 candidates for these positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Constructive Start | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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