Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geology as a perch from which to leap to visions of the New Order. His discourses are exceedingly competent, and they provide the student with a satisfying knowledge of one more feature of the world about him. If all survey courses fitted the needs of both concentrator and distributor as does this one, this talk of Area Courses would be much less necessary...
Every big distributor in pictures turned down Nanook of the North-it had no love interest, no box-office names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island of Savaii to produce Moana, to a rugged island off the coast of Ireland to make Man of Aran, to the native state of Mysore, India to film Elephant...
Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...
...Pierce & Co., 40 Wall Street, which is probably the largest brokerage house in the U. S." Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania was listed by Transocean as the only person taking two subscriptions. Mr. Strassburger, owner of the Norristown, Pa. Times Herald, later appeared in the report as distributor of the First German White Paper, intended to portray Ambassador William C. Bullitt as a warmonger. The Dies Committee told that Publisher Strassburger backed it and distributed 17,000 copies at a cost of $4,250, because of his "personal dislike" for Ambassador Bullitt...
...publishing a dozen indecent magazines which he distributed at a rate of 50,000 copies a month, through five shops in New York and Jersey City, King Newman was out of town, reportedly celebrating the Jewish New Year. This week he turned up, was held for trial along with Distributor Stolz...