Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preferential hiring issue, 3,500 packers and trimmers walked out of the lettuce sheds. In the fields some 2,500 nonunionized Mexican and Filipino "stoop laborers" had to suspend operations also. In the autumn 95% of the nation's lettuce comes from Salinas. By last week, with both sides still in disagreement and the crop waiting in fields and sheds for shipment, this $11,000,000 agricultural industry seemed thoroughly paralyzed. A Growers-Shippers' Association official estimated that the strike was losing his friends and their idle employes...
Last week the end of this wasteful procedure appeared to be in sight. Yale University's Athletic Association announced that Yale football games this autumn will be broadcast by Atlantic Refining Co., which had paid $20,000 for the privilege. Quick to see the significance of Yale's precedent, advertising companies began negotiations with other Eastern colleges which maintain pretentious football teams. Atlantic Refining announced that it had too signed up Temple, Duke, the University of Virginia, Cornell University, Holy Cross, Franklin and Marshall, and hoped to get more. University of Michigan signed with Kellogg Co. (corn flakes...
...tradition Labor Day marks the end of the summer doldrums for Industry, the beginning of the autumn upswing and better business. The summer of 1936 was not so commercially spectacular as the summer of 1933, when Industry was racing the approaching Blue Eagle and the threat of inflation, and the imminence of Repeal was intoxicating the stockmarket (TIME, July 21, 1933). Nevertheless, this week as Labor Day came & went, most U. S. businessmen concluded that the summer of 1936 had been good for trade, that autumn should, by experience, be even better. Indices of a smiling summer...
Ever since Amoskeag closed down last autumn leading Manchester businessmen have worked hard to get the mills going again, under the same or different management. In the event of a knockdown sale these gentlemen apprehended mighty Amoskeag converted into junk, providing neither jobs for Manchester workers nor business for them. Fortnight ago a citizens' committee headed by Manchester's onetime Mayor Arthur Edmond Moreau decided to buy the plant themselves, sell all or any part to manufacturers who would guarantee...
...week on National Broadcasting networks, P. & G. will spend some $3,000.000 this year on seven different programs to plug Oxydol, Ivory Soap, Camay, Chipso, Crisco. Because it now uses day time exclusively, Radio's No. i customer is not likely to be inconvenienced this autumn, as will many another advertiser, by the many and unavoidable interruptions caused by the political oratory of a Presidential campaign. As in the past, most of P. & G.'s programs will be serial dramas designed, like the fiction in women's magazines, for housewifely appeal. For these programs, talent cost...