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...Walter Bigelow Rosen...
Henry Forbes Bigelow...
...lower court, Mrs. Florence Bigelow (a Bloom daughter) starred on the witness stand. Said she: "I don't know anything about the technicalities, but I would like to buy pictures the way I would...
Jurors carefully noted the stunning creation atop the stunning Mrs. Bigelow, awarded her theater treble damages of $360,000. In upholding this verdict, after reversal, the Supreme Court by no means guaranteed that film-renting would be as easy as hat-buying hereafter. For one thing, owners of small independent neighborhood theaters cannot afford to bid for first-run rentals against big houses...
Ward went to work as a laborer at $25 a week. When Bigelow died in 1933, he left Ward his $3,000,000 estate and the presidency of B & B. Ward reorganized B & B's sales force, cutting it from 700-800 men to 400. He put them all on his own incentive pay plan, warned them they had better be good or get out. Result: B & B salesmen boosted their average salaries to about $7,000 a year. In the last four years, despite paper shortages, B & B, which also makes cigaret lighters, playing cards and leather novelties...