Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past year Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. has run cartoon advertising headlined "It's Only a Penny," showing that one cent's worth of electricity will toast 26 slices of bread. Last week the $1,300,000,000 utility issued its third-quarter earnings report. Its net income of $3,506,027 was enough to toast 156 slices of bread for the holder of each share of its common stock-precisely 26 slices more than for the same period last year...
...industry appeared ready to resume its leadership. With automobile production for the week jumping from 45,000 to 62,000 units (88,000 year ago), President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors made front-page news across the nation and inspired a clever cartoon by announcing that G. M. was rehiring 35,000 men, restoring the 10% to 30% pay cuts of last February. This meant an annual boost to G. M.'s payroll of $55,000,000 with an other boost of $60,000,000 likely as other workers are returned to full time-no small addition...
Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some...
...cartoon by Jerry Doyle in the Philadelphia Record and New York Post twitting Senator Tydings for claiming he embraced the ''bone & sinew" of the New Deal...
...Washington Post surpassed all in bitterness with a cartoon by Gene Elderman entitled, "God Bless You, Walter! Let's Always Be Friends...