Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin, but their societies were not officially represented in Milwaukee...
Four switches on one side are marked "electrostatic fields," while four opposing controls bear the sign "electromagnetic fields." The biggest and most business-like switch of all is marked "electrostatic distributor...
...police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than 500 theatres, had banned Fleischer cartoons pending settlement of the strike. Attorneys for Paramount Pictures, Fleischer distributor, promptly denied it. Fact was that some theatres had indeed banned the Fleischer cartoons, others had temporarily dropped them to keep their audiences quiet...
Principally as a convenience to traveling subscribers, 4,000 copies of TIME are rushed to Europe each week, reaching British and usually French newsstands while the same issue is still on sale in New York City. In England, where the office of the European distributor is located, the price is everywhere 9d. (18?). On the Continent a few shopkeepers charge what they can get, unfortunately are not subject to TIME'S regulation. European readers who wish may have TIME sent to them direct from the Circulation Office at 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill. for $7 a year...
Certainteed is the third largest U. S. manufacturer and distributor of gypsum products, chief of which are ordinary wall plaster and wallboard. Its name was derived in 1917 from a trade-mark for the asphalt roofing which was its original product and is still its mainstay. Its weakness was a result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden...