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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storage warehouses, special transportation equipment, practice "big business" sales methods. Sixty fruit and truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president of U. S. Grain Corp. Its counsel: Aaron Sapiro, famed co-operative organiser who sued Henry Ford for libel. Its promise to city housewives: Fresher, riper fruit and vegetables by reducing marketing delays from farm to table. Its hope: to borrow from the Federal Farm Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U. G. of A. | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...within a month landed and tore up their golf course, members of the Old Westbury Golf Club next to Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying Service instead of to Roosevelt Flying Corp., the unintentional depredations of whose flyers induced the Old Westbury players to start building a 103-ft. barrier around their grounds (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Edward C. Channel, director of O'Cedar Corp. (mops) son of O'Cedar President Charles A. Channel; by Mrs. Victoria Dalley Channel; in Chicago. Charged: cruelty, habitual drunkenness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...majority of the world's outstanding businessmen. Their leader, by implication, is leader among businessmen of the world. Last week at the Harvard Business School more than 200 students, from 27 states and three foreign countries, chose Owen D. Young, board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, chairman of the second Reparations Conference, as "the one outstanding American businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Outstanding Businessman | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

This new type of filling station-in the fullest sense-is about to be erected by Beacon Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Beacon announced last week that it had made contracts for six trial stands with Hygrade Food Products Corp. which will furnish the required food and drink. The roadside refreshment stands of the country number 110,000. They did a business of $250,000,000 in 1928. In an era of mergers what is more logical than to do this business efficiently in connection with the filling station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: For Man & Machine | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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