Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME in the same period was Ben Eastman, the crack Stanford middle-distance runner. Eastman was 25 when he retired from track and took a job doing credit work with the Oakland Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co. In 1946, he opened his own business, the Atlas Equipment Co., distributor of Westinghouse air compressors in the San Francisco area. Now 41, he usually gets up to take a 6 a.m. jog of a half mile or so to keep in condition. Of the link between college and business careers, he says: "One thing track has done for me is that...
...emphasized that the University Libraries weren't trying to flout "advice" by Massachusetts State police that lending or sale of the book might make the distributor liable for court action...
...same time, Benjamin W. Corey of the Hi Fi Lab disclosed that a third distributor refused to sell him records yesterday. Mutual Distributors, which handle London records, blamed stoppage on "A moral duty to the Harvard Square merchants...
...same time, Benjamin W. Corey '41, owner of the Hi Fi Lab, indicated that he would begin anti-trust suits in the near future against two large record distributors for an alleged "freeze-out." Corey charged that both Allied Appliances, the Columbia distributor, and PCA Victor were refusing to sell him records because "the Square is overcrowded." Hi Fi entered the record field just before the beginning of the new year...
...three other Square record shops are already giving discounts ranging from 20 to 50 percent. McKenna's, which began giving a 20 percent discount the first of the month, attributed the cut in prices on similar cuts by Sam Goody of New York, the country's largest LP distributor. The effects of Goody's undercutting made the reduction necessary, according to one of the officials of McKenna. Harvard Square is only one of many areas that has been hit by the price...