Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm products. But since the cow's biological apparatus produces an oversupply in the spring and a scarcity in winter, milk prices tend to fluctuate wildly. This, plus the sanitary necessity of supervising milk distribution, has long made some sort of co-operation inevitable between producer and distributor. It usually takes the form of so-called "milksheds" developed around urban centres...
...Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told of "Johnny," a young Italian "who has never known any work but WPA" and, according to Blackburn, didn't want any. "Johnny," cracked Mr. Hunter, was a former newspaper distributor and bookkeeper who had been trying for a long time to get back some money he had loaned Reporter Blackburn. One of the Tribune's shovel-leaning pictures, said Mr. Hunter's statement, was taken at a private sewer job; another had been hastily cut down...
...Poya. Try it, you can buy it here and there (and everywhere). Something new and the distributor wants partner with money of course (Naturally...
...theatres. The average Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony costs somewhere between $50 and $75 a foot; Snow White, over $200. Walt and a group of local cartoonists organized a $15,000 corporation in 1922, after spending six months making their first feature, Little Red Riding Hood. A New York distributor was found and out came Jack the Giant Killer, Town Musicians of Bremen, Goldilocks and three others, among them Alice in Cartoonland, which was a sort of embryonic Snow White. But the distributor collapsed. So did Walt's corporation. In return for movies of their children, Kansas City mothers...
...distribution is thus Business with a capital B and many a distributor and dealer has ridden his trade to fame & fortune. Distributor Charles S. Howard of San Francisco, having sold Buicks since the company began, now enjoys possession of the race horse Seabiscuit. Ford Dealer Samuel Breadon owns the St. Louis Cardinals. Packard Dealer Alvan Tufts Fuller became Governor of Massachusetts. Newest star to rise from the dealer ranks is Roy Samuel Evans, president of new American Bantam...