Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax of the second monthly installment of The March of Time, out last week, is a series of swift international shots showing Europe drawing an iron ring around Adolf Hitler. While the German Realmleader broods in his Bavarian hideaway, marching men in Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping...
...until last week, however, did any corporation take advantage of the new form. Then Swift & Co. registered $43,000,000 of bonds to refund outstanding securities at lower interest rates. The new Swift bonds will carry a 3¼% coupon, probably the lowest rate for an industrial bond issue since before the War when General Electric sold an issue of 3½s. When Swift officials reported that the 50-page registration was no more troublesome than an oldtime prospectus, Chairman Kennedy, happy as only a Boston Irishman can be, exulted: "This issue is very good evidence that at least...
Injuries: loss of some of Manager Phil Angier's eyebrows, some of Whiteside's temper, and $4500 worth of launch; asset: driver Arthur Sampson has what Swift & Co. call "smoked hams...
Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic events in the cigar industry of the last decade...