Word: audition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moley Audit...
...Adman Kleppner should know, standard source of U. S. circulation statistics is Audit Bureau of Circulations, whose latest report credits the Philadelphia Record with 233,629 daily, 372,740 Sunday...
Last week Philadelphia's Curtis Publishing Co. totted up circulation and revenue for the first six months of 1936. When the audit was completed, President Walter Dean Fuller announced that, between them, The Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman and Ladies' Home Journal had gained some 418,000 readers over the first half of last year. Circulation: Sateve-post: 2,972,026; Country Gentleman: 1,534,812; Ladies' Home Journal: 2,786,219. Net profits of the three magazines for the same period were up from $3,773,297 to $4,107,871. Curtis no-par common stock...
...Frank Akin, a Portland, Ore. public accountant, was found shot dead in his apartment. Two days later one Mark M. Israel, a Portland jeweler and loan broker who had employed Akin to audit his accounts, gave police and a Portland Oregonlan reporter a sensational clue which he said Akin had confided to him. His story was that Akin had had a mistress who had frequently threatened to kill...
...result of this step State operators and McKesson officials arranged for a "trap" on McKesson property, as a result of which a "go-between," alleged to be working in the personal interest of the discredited State official, was arrested. Immediately upon the completion of a special audit of the affairs of the Colorado branch of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., the full amount of all taxes due to the State of Colorado was promptly paid...