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...stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...
Last week a big part of the answer came from the best possible and most unexpected source : hulking, close-mouthed William S. Knudsen. who gave up the $300,000-a-year presidency of General Motors last summer to join the National Defense Advisory Commission (for nothing) as head of its production section. Big Bill Knudsen had kept his mouth shut while the press reported instances of slow delivery on airplanes, tanks & guns, of scrambled priorities for defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week...
...than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books: What'll You Have, Boys?; The Back Room; Set 'Em Up! He does an $85,000-a-year business, "is wined and dined in homes that some social climbers would give no less than their right arm to even get in the kitchen of." Yet he still tends bar, never takes a drink. "You represent a whole period of American history," a college professor recently told...
France and Italy no longer export vermouth to the U. S. Result: a tremendous boost to the U. S.'s infant vermouth industry. From a production of 164,747 gallons for the year ended June 30, 1937, domestic vermouth output has been trebled this year. With stocks approaching the vanishing point, Californians and New Yorkers have had a $2,000,000-a-year business dumped in their laps...
Some artists get invaluable publicity from Christmas cards. Dale Nichols hit the jack pot after his The End of the Hunt was put on a card. He got a $4,000-a-year Carnegie Rotating Professorship job at the University of Illinois, and the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bought The End of the Hunt-although it denies that the Christmas card had anything to do with it. Some other Group artists who, by accident or design, have done cardworthy snowscapes, religious or convivial scenes: Emil Ganso, Doris Rosenthal, Lauren Ford, Henry Varnum Poor, Jozef Bakos, N. C. Wyeth, Aaron Bohrod...