Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Billy Arnold, Chicago speed driver: the 200-mi. classic at Altoona in a Hartz-Miller Special, beating Deacon Litz in a Duesenberg after a wild duel full of skids, blowouts, breaks on the turns...
...Bank of Italy. Stoutest of all advocates of branch banking is Amadeo Peter Giannini, and classic example of a bank-with-branches is the Giannini-founded, Giannini-expanded Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association. California-wide institution. Last week it was revealed that soon Bank of Italy will succumb to the same forces of expansion and merging which it created. As soon as details are worked out, Bank of Italy will merge with Bank of America of California, newer Giannini institution. The new bank will be called Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, will have resources...
...posters around town, delivers lectures on the newest developments in U. S. business. Sometimes he uses industrial cinemas donated by prominent manufacturing concerns. Sometimes he has his corps of assistants perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...
Concluded Editor Pew: "If I may be pardoned for making a suggestion, it is that newspapermen who prize . . . the classic heroism and pathfinding of our young pioneer of the air should see in him less of the showman and more of the scientist...
...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up: the $70,000 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park, beating Gallant Knight by a neck after sneaking past Maya on the rail for a fine sprint down the stretch. Gallant Fox has now won $275,000-$38,639 less than the record of Zev, greatest U. S. money-winning horse...