Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorities find some way to punish theatre owners for holding Bank Night, Promoters Yaeger and Ricketson remain comfortably out of danger. In Danville, Ill. last week. Bank Night owners dropped an infringement of copyright suit against the McCollum circuit when the circuit agreed to substitute Bank Night for the "Cash Night" it had been running. In Bangor. Me. Affiliated Enterprises won a suit brought by a Bank Night salesman on the grounds that if anyone owed him commissions it was Roy Hoffener, New England "Bank Night Distributor...
...that the copyright is easy to infringe. Proprietors of drugstores, dance-halls, delicatessens are likely to be incredulous and indignant when warned that they are trespassing. A variation of Bank Night is currently popular at Manhattan's Stork Club, where patrons get free chances for substantial cash prizes. Imitations of Bank Night called "Dividend Night," "Buck Night," "Cash Night," "Screeno," are flourishing in cinema houses all over the U. S. Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night has been so popular that police and fire departments had to be called out sometimes to control theatre crowds...
Suits to determine the legality of Bank Night are currently proceeding in New Hampshire, Texas, Massachusetts, and New York, where the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court last week found one Charles Cranides guilty of breaking the lottery law by spinning a wheel in his cinemansion to determine cash awards. In New Orleans the four major newspapers (Times-Picayune, States, Item and Tribune) recently discontinued theatre advertising containing mention of Bank Night...
...Jones industrial stock averages closed at 147. Next day Federal Reserve Board Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles publicly pronounced the market sound, declaring: "I think there is an element of safety and of strength in the fact that security purchases are being financed out of cash. . . . I am doubtful whether a runaway stock-market situation can proceed very far without being reflected in an increased demand for borrowed funds...
...take canned beer lying down. Last week he announced the purchase of two tin can factories-Tin Decorating Co. of Baltimore and Enterprise Can Co. of McKees Rocks, Pa. Tin Decorating, a subsidiary of American Tobacco Co., manufactured tobacco cans. For it Owens-Illinois paid $3,320,000 cash. Enterprise Can made a general line of cans, not including beer cans. The two companies, and possibly others to be added, will be organized into Owens-Illinois Can Co. To run his new company, Mr. Levis picked an old can-maker, Frederick Adolph Prahl, who was born in Port of Spain...