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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher of Woman's Day is Stores Publishing Co., an A. & P. subsidiary. Its president is A. & P. Adman Donald Parker Hanson, who will send the magazine in bulk to individual A. & P. stores at cost, less any advertising income. Its first issue of 815,000 copies carried over $13,000 in paid advertising, nearly half from A. & P. and its manufacturing subsidiaries...
Publisher Hanson will continue the weekly A. & P. Menu, a handout which rose to 750.000 circulation, has cost his company a million dollars in six years. The first Thursday of each month the Menu will be part of Woman's Day. With true grocery psychology, A. & P. printed on the cover of free Woman's Day: "Price 3?" coyly crossed out the figure...
...Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River that President Roosevelt paused to make his speech and it was there that the last important link was last week completed at a cost of $11,500,000, $2,324,881 of which was contributed by Mr. Roosevelt...
...links' main span across the river which cost $2,885,000 is the biggest bascule bridge in the world. Locally dubbed Centennial Bridge, the double-leaf structure is 331 ft. long, wide enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns...
...after he urged oilmen to undertake pool buying under NRA, wrote as follows to Mr. Arnott: "It has been brought to my attention that the market for gasoline and other petroleum products has recently been disturbed by numerous price wars. . . . This has resulted in petroleum products being sold below cost in some areas in order to meet unrestrained competition. . . . Price wars necessarily injure small independent marketers. . . . Therefore, I am requesting and authorizing you, as Chairman of the Marketing Committee, to designate committees for each locality when and as price wars develop, with authority to confer . . . and in a co-operative...