Word: brunswickers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Benjamin E. Bensinger, wife of the president of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. (pool tables, phonographs); of heart disease; at the Lake Shore Country Club (Ravinia...
...city convulsed in agony, caught its breath. It shook its head, came up for a final, triumphant round. Among its innovators were: Cyrus McCormick and his reaper; George Pullman and his "palace car"; Pinkerton and his sleuths; Bross and his Tribune; Frances Willard and her "praying women"; Brunswick, Balke and their billiard table; Rand McNally and his maps; Crane and his valves; Kimball and his pianos; Kuppenheimer and his clothes...
...same week that "G.E.'s" directors went cruising, directors of Brunswick- Balke-Collender Co. elected Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson) to their board. This was not done because they pined for entertainment to alleviate the tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling his records, but mainly for the knowledge of the amusement line and the shrewd sense of business that Singer Jolson has shown. For contrary to the belief that all actors end in an Actors' Home, he has prospered financially and his operations in Warner Bros. (Vitaphone...
...Brunswick, N. J. 500 General Cigar Co. workers...
From radio the expansion into the phonograph business was logical inasmuch as the old-style phonograph, failing to compete with radio sets, went, in for electric reproduction and also for combination radio-phonographs. Radio Corp. entered the phonograph field by supplying Brunswick-Balke-Collender and later Victor Talking Machine with the radio and the electric drive for their combination machines. Last winter Radio and Victor directors agreed on Radio's absorption of Victor. Radio-Victor Corp. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Radio Corp...