Word: added
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...
Paul Trousdale got into the Los Angeles building business by way of the University of Southern California and the ad department of Beech-Nut. After a year as an adman, Trousdale took a $125-a-month timekeeper's job with a local contractor, quit to form his own company with a $10,000 bank loan to finance...
When the Nov. 23 issue of Atlas Corp.'s Liberty appeared on U.S. newsstands last week, its chief feature was not editorial but a whopping 16-page ad, largest ever run in a national weekly. The ad: Lionel Corp.'s entire Christmas catalogue of toy electric trains...
...Lionel, which had figured on paying about $125,000 to have catalogues printed by a job printer, the deal was a money-saver. Its ad cost only $76,240, gave the catalogue a guaranteed circulation of 1,360,000. For another $22,000, Lionel got 600,000 additional catalogues to distribute on its own. Clucked advertising manager Hanson: "An arrangement like this should solve our problem for a year anyway." Liberty wished it could say the same...
Thus in 1700 AD the citizens of New Haven, tired of contributing to the support of an institution of decided Crimson hue in far-off Cambridge since the year 1644, decided to "educate ministers in their own way," and ten clergymen, Harvard graduates all, convened to do the job. Not until 18 years later, however, in 1718 when a certain Governor of the British East India Company saw fit to contribute his fortune to the Arts and Sciences, did the embryo college become financially secure, and in gratitude they immortalized the name of Elihu Yale...