Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wide Open Town" is disappointing. It does not nearly approach the gusto and vigor of his former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them...
...Four or five correspondents take connecting offices in a Washington building, exchange information, "black sheets" (carbon copies of news stories), work cooperatively. These news combinations are jestingly referred to as "brain trusts...
...work, spoke to no one but the village postmistress, one Ann Huess. Last week Ann Huess missed her, got police to break into the house. Mrs. Claire Polk sat by her fireside, warmed by a flickering gas log. She had been dead a week, of carbon monoxide poisoning...
...Armour disappeared from the boulevards of Chicago, and his fortunes crashed and he died in London, the cycle of his family has swung low, then started up again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery chains. Swift & Co. last week availed itself of this release...
...Cromwell Publishing Company. New York: G. R. Schaeffer, advertising manager of Marshall Field and Company. Chicago: G. L. Sumner, president of the G. Lynn Sumner Company..Incorporated. New York: R. S. Vaile, Professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota: and P. B. West. advertising manager of the National Carbon Company. Incorporated. New York...