Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, the House chose the first course. Its bill would wipe out all food subsidies, guarantee every producer and distributor a "reasonable" (and undefined) profit margin, and end price controls whenever production of an article reached the 1941 level. That combination of pressure-group policies would raise the indexes a good 25 percent at once, with further sharp boosts to follow as output really begins to flow. Establishing 1941 supply s the norm looks good at first sight, but on closer examination resembles an attempt to measure the avalanche with a rain-gauge. For five years the consumer...
...bona fide passport in his pocket described Browder's new occupation with the dignity befitting the publisher of Distributor's Guide, a journal of economic information for businessmen. Journalist Browder, however, seemed scarcely friendly to his colleagues...
...refused to explain last week what his new Distributor's Guide, Inc. proposes to do for its customers when they start arriving. His partner, Brother William, onetime president and business manager of the Daily Worker, let a little information leak out. They had been busy for a month setting up an information service for store owners. Their specialty sounded like a shrewd idea: helping clients to find scarce items of merchandise...
TIME'S Rome distributor estimates that Romans purchase 2,000 copies of TIME each week - even though TIME, of course, is printed in English...
...Reporter was not telling British Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank anything he did not know. As the Empire's No. i motion picture producer, distributor and exhibitor (TIME, June 11), he holds the key to U.S. movie profits in the foreign market. (Normally few U.S. pictures begin to make more than expenses until they are shown abroad...