Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three months, the Fair had made nothing from operations and was practically ready for receivership. Early in May the two most interested members of its board of management virtually became its receivers: cagey Standard Oil of California Director Philip Halsey Patchin and solid Pacific Gas & Electric President James Byers Black. They fired Director Connick (annual salary: $17,500) and hired*(at no salary) a new director, smart, baldish Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator...
...director shook up the management. In the Fair's outdoor plaza, Temple Compound, Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman, whose brass band had been playing classical music to crowds of around 1,500 a day, was replaced by swing band leaders, notably Benny Goodman whose hot band played to 2,000,000 customers in five weeks. The Fair's admissions jumped, by last week were averaging 37,600 daily. At this rate by its closing date, December 2, it would have 12,000,000 customers, 40% fewer than originally expected, 13% fewer than San Francisco's 1915 exposition...
California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...
Last year, Delaware's Court of Chancery finally decided that Pepsi-Cola belonged to Loft, not to Mr. Guth. Then Phoenix' president, 43-year-old Walter S. Mack Jr., a director of Loft, became president of Pepsi-Cola Co. When he looked into the books which Mr. Guth had previously kept well hidden, he found a thriving business. For the first nine months of 1938 Pepsi-Cola had turned in a net profit of $2,700,000; its stock was selling at $70 a share (it is now $190). (For the same period Loft lost...
Russian-born Director Lewis Milestone, a job at $1,750. Today Myron Selznick & Co. (listed under both M and S in the Manhattan Telephone Directory as a concession to unsophisticated clients) represents some 200 performers and directors who include most of Hollywood's big names. For getting their jobs, boosting their salaries and performing a variety of other services from straightening out their household accounts to watching their income taxes, Agent Selznick collects a straight 10% of their earnings, binds them to five-year contracts. In Hollywood round numbers, the Selznick clients' payroll is annually...