Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Casper Warren Briggs, 96, pioneer maker and distributor of magic-lantern slides; in Atlantic City. His "slip slide," showing figures that moved across a background, was one of the earliest forms of the motion picture...
...networks. Until last April, he was an on-&-off Mutual attraction. Fifteen minutes after he jabbered his jabberwacky over WOR for local sponsors, he repeated the show for the network. Theoretically, Mutual offered Here's Morgan to local sponsors, but there was only one taker-a beer distributor in Hawaii. So two months ago Morgan refused to continue the repeat broadcasts, contented himself with his sponsored WOR show...
...Getting tougher on several fronts at once (see col. 2), WPB last week took direct control of suppliers' inventories in a broad list of 19 trades. Henceforth no wholesaler, distributor or retailer in these trades can carry more than two months' stock on hand (if he lives in the Mountain or Pacific States, three months'). The order covered suppliers to the automotive, building, dairy, electrical, farm, foundry, hardware, plumbing, railroad, restaurant, textile mill and practically every other trade that uses any metal...
...permanently magnetized when an electrical current flows through it. Hence, in the core of a distributor coil, it allows a high spark output at all engine speeds. This solves a problem which has troubled engineers as high-speed motors have demanded ever higher spark efficiency...
...Decade for $100,000. Named by red-hating Lyons as a fellow traveler who defended Moscow's mass trials and executions, Lamont protested that Lyons had wrongfully classified him as a "stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. ∙∙ John L Lewis' daughter, Kathryn...