Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago there were three important evening papers in Brooklyn,* two of them published by outsiders?Frank Ernest Gannett's Eagle, Paul Block's Standard Union. Last week there were two, both home-owned. Chain-Publisher Gannett a month ago had let the revered Eagle revert to the Hesters and Gunnisons, oldtime Brooklyn families from whom he had bought it. Last week Chain-Publisher Block sold his Standard Union to the up-&-coming Brooklyn daily Times with which it was immediately consolidated. The Times's publisher is Fremont Carson ("Monty") Peck, 33, who inherited the paper from his father...
...degree from Harvard in 1897, is one of the most distinguished living philosophers. During the first half of the year he will conduct a seminary course in the "Theory of Meaning". At the same time he will deliver a series of eight or ten lectures on "The Great Chain of Being", and "A Study in the History of Ideas". Professor Dewey's public lectures were delivered on "Esthetics", his seminary course centered around "Logic...
...first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his late employer that...
...comprehensive review of 1931 earnings, based on 900 reports, was issued by National City Bank. It found them off 52.9% from 1930, 72% from 1929. Deficits were reported by 39% of the companies. Chain stores, tobacco and shoe companies fared better than in 1930. Total earnings were a return of only 3.3% on net value...
...outstanding. As an inducement to buy, the company can cite a $1,684,000 volume of gross business last year. Peak year was 1929, with $2,100,000. Over-the-counter sales will be handled by Pringle, Price & Co. Largest stockholders will be Mrs. MacDougall, Son Allan, and Chain Store Fund, Inc., an investment trust which bought a minority interest in the MacDougall business two years ago. With new capital Mrs. MacDougall plans to expand her business outside the metropolitan area, to advertise nationally, to add to the 250-to-500 stores which now carry MacDougall teas, coffees, cocoas, jellies...