Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street & Smith was living in its lurid past-and losing money-when energetic Publisher Allen L. Grammer, a white-haired alumnus of Curtis Publishing Co., took over in 1938. Grammer soon set about converting the outfit from pulps to slicks. In two years he built Mademoiselle to 300,000 circulation, later added the other women's magazines. Today the only traces of a man's world around Street & Smith are Astounding Science Fiction and two slicks, Air Trails Pictorial and Pic Sports Quarterly. Grammer says they are thriving. But in case they should ever weaken, S. & S. would...
...Algy Allen rates just above Sid Clark at goal, but Clark will probably see some action...
...Allen Eugene Kline '50, of Atlanta Georgia, and Lowell House; Thomas Stewart James '52, of Chicago and Grays Hall; and Charles Lee Nutt Ill, '50, of Garden City, Long Island, New York, and Lowell House...
...ALLEN E. KLINE...
This is the pattern of Morgan's work, consolidation to eliminate wasteful competition and then control to insure good management. The evils of the Morgan system are obvious, but unlike his predecessors, Allen merely presents the motives and lets his readers decide whether they are good or bad. His book contains material for both the muckraker and the Morgan-worshipper. It paves the way for a more scientific evaluation of this period than has been possible in the past...