Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, keen-eyed William Thomas Carpenter, who ran a real-estate agency across the street from Dubil's butcher shop, joined the venture and they found a ready market for their laminated steaks in other shops. Bill Carpenter named them "Chip Steaks," set out to sell them in a big way. Presently William Dubil sold his patents to Carpenter for 25% of the Chip Steak royalties...
Carpenter organized the National Chip Steak Co., set out with a trailer and a steak-making outfit to demonstrate and sell. Last week he reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began...
With over $1,000,000,000 in assets, total revenues of $111,358,000 last year, Radio is a blue-chip big business. But it has one great obstacle to its future: so long as all station licenses come up for review before the Federal Communications Commission every year, no radio station can guarantee its existence for any longer period. Since FCC took up its cudgel in 1934, it has conked no heads to speak of, and last week Steve Early turned up in Atlantic City, reiterated the "unofficial" reassurances of his White House chief that that big stick...
...last act of Harold Ickes before turning his PWA over to its new big boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm for PWA work in Georgia...
...March 1938 Esquire's smart Publisher David Smart and Editor Arnold Gingrich began to publish the magazine Ken. It was a political chip off Esquire's editorial block. Its editorial program was to tell the "inside story of world events," the inside usually being more dirt on the dictatorships. But it did not go really leftish and its original leftish editorial connections-Jay Cooke Allen (Chicago Tribune'?, foreign correspondent), George Seldes (You Can't Print That!), Ernest Hemingway- gradually drifted away. Editor Gingrich went on publishing sensational "inside" stories, not consistently taking any political side, while...