Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, picked breezy, bustling, ambitious Roy Dikeman Chapin, board chairman of Hudson Motor Car Co. Long have Mr. Chapin's friends known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became its president in 1910, board chairman in 1923. The Essex "Terraplane" is Mr. Chapin...
...Catalog. Into the mails last week went 7,000,000 new Montgomery Ward & Co. mail order catalogs. The book has 606 pages, lists 40,000 items. Prices average 18-25% lower than a year ago. Chief catalog change is that the book is divided into eleven departments which arrange goods as a department store would. This change is attributed to President Sewell Lee Avery, is considered a tremendous innovation by mailordermen. Said President Avery last week: "The economic principles of selling by mail are as sound and acceptable today as when this business was started 60 years ago." Last week...
...fear. The prizefighter then kills the caddish officer for cheating in the card game. Elissa Landi is suspected of the crime and the only witness who might help her, an ex-soldier, is so paralyzed by the spectacle of murder that he can neither write nor speak. This catalog of misfortunes is further expanded by interruptions in a minor romance between a young Oxford man (Alexander Kirkland) and a London art student (Barbara Weeks). Good shot: Beryl Mercer gasping as a hand, which she does not know is her son's, reaches through a window for her money...
...Chicago department stores doing an annual business of $155,000,000 in a full-page advertisement last week publicly welcomed a competitor to State Street. That the competitor would undersell them was self-evident, for the competitor was none other than Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose famed mail order catalog is indispensable in farm houses from Maine to New Mexico. But far-sighted storekeepers knew that Sears, Roebuck would bring to Chicago's Loop district many a shopper who had never bought there before, hoped thereby to gain more trade than they would lose...
...elaborately illustrated catalog of the exhibition, discussing the U. S. housing problem, the principles of the International Style, has been prepared by Lewis Mumford, Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock...