Business: Red S

The Singer Manufacturing Co. makes more than 1,500,000 sewing machines of 3,000 different types each year in its nine factories.† Its 10,000 stores and 60,000 salesmen cover the world to sell the machines turned out by its 28,000 factory hands. Its symbolic red S is familiar in Germany, South Africa, China. While its officers labor in Manhattan's once tallest Singer Building, its woodsmen chop down millions of board feet of lumber in its Canadian and southern U. S. forests.

To compile the annual report for such an...

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