Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chip Off Old Block...
...agent for Greyhound, Rubloff bought the famous old Ashland Block, a 16-story terra cotta skyscraper that sunburned the tonsils of visitors to the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. He also bought seven adjoining properties, making 70,000 square feet in all. Total cost: $1,700,000. Best guess on Rubloff's commission...
Rubloff has worked on the deal for 30 months, scurrying around for options, renewing them when they expired, getting 2,200 of the Ashland Block's certificate holders to approve a sale. "All big deals are one long series of headaches," he said last week. "I used stooges and dummies and anything I could think of. ... I scarcely even tell myself what I'm doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from...
Alton (Ill.) Boxboard Co. decided to try the idea to the tune of a $25,000 advertising budget. Their St. Louis test campaign upped collections 25%. With these results to back him up, Block soon sold the industry on the scheme...
...make it more worth the junkman's while, Block's campaign is also aimed at scrap metal and rags. Last week OPM's Conservation Division called 80 scrap dealers to Washington, told them OPM would soon start a national campaign to increase their collection of all kinds of scrap...