Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting feature of the situation to British businessmen lies in the fact that U. S. films have proved, mainly unintentionally, a rich publicity and sales agent for U. S. goods abroad. In consequence, since the Baldwin Government's subsidy to the coal industry, British film producers are now demanding a similar subsidy for their business. They declare that this step is necessary if British colonies are not to be slowly but surely Americanized by our exported films...
...Only Henry Ford could have gone at buying the ships in the way he did. . . . After the other bids were opened, along comes Mr. Ford's agent to say that he is now ready to bid, in full confidence that the other offers will be rejected and a new call for bids will be made. One has to be powerful to expect such consideration...
...Dawson, recently retired telephone contract agent for the Post Office Department, wrote to a London evening newspaper recalling that once he installed two "beautiful telephones in ivory and gold" for the exclusive use of the late King Edward. The monarch requested that they be installed in such a way that the operators could not overhear his conversation. The Post Office authorities demurred. According to their regulations they had a positive right and duty to censor any messages coming over their wires. But King Edward insisted and the Post Office desisted, installed the telephones as requested...
...event which this extraordinary gathering awaited was the distribution of the latest issue of a medical journal, the Lancet. Previous announcements (TIME, July 20), had informed them that in that journal would appear articles by Dr. W. E. Gye, a one-time ticket agent, by Mr. J. E. Barnard, a prosperous hatter, describing their attempts to isolate the cancer germ. Efforts to obtain advance copies of this gazette by judicious bribing of printers, proofreaders, carriers, had failed. The crowd waited. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Lancet was issued...
...Station Agent. Some score of years ago there was a young railroad ticket agent in Derbyshire. He had a great ambition to be a scientist, but he had no money for an education. So he sat and ate out his heart behind a ticket window. His name was Bullock...