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...country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
Information Please costs Canada Dry about $10,000 a week. Biggest piece of this budget ($5,400) goes for air time on 60 NBC-Blue network stations. The expert Big Three get something like $450 an appearance, Interlocutor Fadiman, $750 (before Canada Dry came along they all got $40 to $50 a sitting). Guest experts, one or two a week, get $150 up. Biggest guest offer reported so far (and so far unaccepted) : $500 to Eleanor Roosevelt. Canada Dry considers this $10,000 a week well-spent. Since it started sponsoring Information Please, a year ago last week, Canada...
Glenn Miller attributes his crescendo to the "juke box." which retails recorded music at 5? a shot in bars, restaurants and small roadside dance joints, and has become the record industry's biggest customer (TIME, Sept. 4). Of the twelve to 24 discs in each of today's 300,000 U. S. juke boxes, from two to six are usually Glenn Miller...
Thus, two of the land's biggest tycoons handed over one of the land's biggest corporations to their successors. It was a fine thing for G.E. to have as board chairman one who forced down the throats of European politicos a 70% reduction in German reparations, and who was now & then mentioned for the U. S. Presidency as a public-minded businessman. Likewise it was a fine thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees...
...Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...