Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nimble financiers can build tremendous companies, but just as great as the problems of organization are those of obtaining capable executives. When Cyrus Stephen Eaton (no steelman) last week announced the final details of the merger between his steel companies, the head of the new Republic Steel Corp. was of course Tom Mercer Girdler whom, three months ago, he snatched from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Jones & Laughlin announced that a man had been obtained to fill the Girdlerless post of presidency. He is George Gordon Crawford, who has been president of Tennessee Coal...
...Animals. Although some 124,000 more hogs went grunting into Chicago slaughter houses last year than in 1928, the total animals handled showed a large reduction for the year. Figures announced last week were...
...General Motors inaugurated their "savings & investment" classes. Into these yearly classes every employe is allowed to place up to 20% of his annual earnings, but not over $300. For every $1 deposited the corporation deposits 50? which is invested in G. M. common stock and the interest reinvested. Last week the 15,177 members of the 1924 class received $8,608,000. An employe who deposited $300 in 1924 will receive $1,415, of which $415 represents his original investment plus interest at 6% while the rest is accounted for by 25 shares of G. M. stock at a market...
...does a good U. S. Protestant feel about contemporary conditions in his native land? What makes him sorry? What makes him glad? Few Protestants, however wise, would feel equipped to answer these questions comprehensively. But last week a book report was published which attempts to answer them on behalf of all U. S. Protestants, some 32,000,000 in number. Called Social Work of the Churches, it is issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Perhaps the most complete declaration ever made by organized Protestantism, it was compiled during several years' work...
Just how similar they are became manifest last week in Pittsburgh, where some 1,000 delegates from these Churches, as well as certain smaller Presbyterian and Reformed denominations,* met for two days to sound out the possibility of uniting Presbyterian and Reformed Churches. They concluded that union was not only possible but highly probable...