Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edition of the famed International Bulletin's newest volume: Infantile Paralysis. The Bulletin, which contains the latest words of 25 world-scattered polio experts, is edited by enthusiastic Dr. William Leo Colze of Brussels, now in Manhattan. U. S. publisher and distributor is the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, headed by Presidential friend Basil O'Connor, who administers funds raised at the President's Birthday Balls. Nuggets of information...
...McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches of an industry, did away with the expense of changing over machines, putting new models of shoes into production. It never failed to show a profit. Its boast...
...This month the Boston Conference on Distribution met, argued about production and distribution, decided that high costs of distribution were a big factor in the U. S. dilemmas. Meanwhile silent, big-tied Distributor John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., ran the world's biggest chain store, distributed more food to more people, and probably more cheaply than any organization had ever distributed...
...Skoda Isky ("No more love"). Popular among polka-dancing Bohemians and Moravians, Vejvoda's bit of tinkle-tonkle was soon recorded by an old-fashioned Czech beer-garden band, and in disc form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand in the Middle West...
...Another entrant in the field is Henry Ford, who makes his own distributor housings, gearshift knobs and other accessories from soy-beans...