Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge fans. Today Cardman Albert believes that the trend will turn toward old num- bers like hearts, poker, pinochle, where individual skill is more important than teamwork. So long as the U. S. plays cards Mr. Albert does not care what the game happens to be. For years his com pany has made more than one-half the decks sold in the U. S. (last year's total...
Last week NEA, a little breathless after a scrimmage with "another American com-petitor" (not Hearst), signed up to pay the five little Dionnes about $50.000 a year for the exclusive privilege of making their "still" pictures for newspapers, magazines and commercial users,* for by now the Quins have become the world's greatest news-picture story, subscribed to for 1937 by 672 U. S. dailies with an aggregate circulation...
...plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired was a big com pany with a poor record. Certainteed has had losses every year from 1928 to 1935, when it made a small profit. It shows a loss for the first nine months...
...John Price Jones Corp. was retained by Harvard's Tercentenary Com- mittee for promotional advice & counsel, but declines to take credit either for editing the Gazette or for handling the event's publicity, which was in the hands of Alumnus Arthur Wild...
...Lorimer's salary was $133,399. Depression lowered the great advertising medium's income. Last year saw Satevepost advertising again on the upswing. The magazine took in $22,045,333.50, paid Mr. Lorimer $100,000 for editing it. As the second largest individual stockholder in the com pany, Mr. Lorimer has been unquestioned boss of all Curtis publications (Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal), since old Mr. Curtis' death...