Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hypercompetitive, bubble-riding, style-mad is the $100,000,000 U. S. millinery industry. The Federal Trade Commission last week published a study of its scrambled distribution methods. Prime thesis of the report: chain and syndicate distributors (who combine the functions of wholesaler and retailer) handle close to half of...
For 17 years big Melville Shoe Corp. (No. 1 U. S. shoe retailer; sales: 10,000,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000,000 pairs of socks) and J. F. McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take...
At The Circus is funny, should have been funnier. But cinemarxists, as they rest up from more laughs than the Marx Brothers have given them in many a long picture, may agree that the Marxes are still U. S. comedy trio No. 1, even if, as Namesake Karl Marx said...
With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead. A small new company brought the title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have...
"Amid falling snow at midnight, out of a carriage bundled a mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis...