Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Auburn brought three lines to show, led by a yellow sport roadster with exposed exhausts and a supercharged engine. Guaranteed speed: 100 m.p.h. Long and handsomely streamlined, the Auburns looked as if Errett Lobban Cord considered it a propitious moment to bid for the swift and flashy market, as he did to his great profit in the first years of Depression...
...four biggest units in the largest industry in the U. S. in value of cutout Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy account for more than half of all the meat sold each year. But packers' profits are seldom more than a penny or two on every dollar of sales. Within the fortnight three of the big four released earnings for the fiscal year...
...Swift. A steel man would be dissatisfied to earn only $11,432,000 net on a gross of $619,000,000. For Swift it was better than the year before and only a few million short of the company's 1926 high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded...
Divorced. James Paul Warburg, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., sometime Brain Truster, lyricist ("Can't We Be Friends?"); by Katharine Swift Warburg, composer for his lyrics; in Reno. Grounds: extreme cruelty, uncontested...
...same swift, magical way that he has when he waves his baton, Arturo Toscanini last week decided the musical issue which has confronted Manhattan all autumn. A merger of the Philharmonic-Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera seemed practically assured when word came from Milan that the Maestro disapproved it. In less than 24 hours the plan was dropped...