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Selznick International still owed its distributor, United Artists, two pictures. These will be produced by Selznick's new company, David O. Selznick Productions, Inc., 100% Selznick-owned. The new company will assume the contracts of such Selznick breadwinners as Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, Ingrid (Intermezzo) Bergman, Joan (Rebecca) Fontaine, dumpy Director Alfred Hitchcock...
...distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired...
...student organization is now under the management of Mr. R.T. Sharpe of the Student Employment Office, who has already appointed a manager and one distributor for each of the three Houses. Sandwiches, milk, Coca-Cola, etc. will be distributed to the students' rooms each evening. If the plan is successful in the Houses where it is being tried at present, it will be extended next year to cover all the Houses and the Yard...
Tractor-trailers do almost 100% of all U. S. inter-city highway hauling today. A few months ago the Fruehauf brothers got the job of national distributor for the stainless steel trailers of Budd Manufacturing Co., gave an initial order for 10,000 stainless steel semitrailer body sets. On the market and doing nicely is Fruehauf's new light-weight Aerovan (of aluminum alloy) which, carrying a ten-ton payload, weighs three-quarters of a ton less than Fruehauf's equivalent steel model of last year. One growing reason for reducing trailer weights: many a local highway regulation...
...older and bigger American Bible Society, it sowed some 1,600,000 Bibles through eight midwestern States. Since Dr. McLaughlin took charge of it in 1927, the Society's sales have quadrupled. As a missionary in the Philippines, he helped translate the Bible into Tagalog. As a Bible distributor and cruise lecturer, he has been round the world six times. Two years ago he fell and broke his back. During the 13 months he was in a cast, he made 173 addresses. Dr. McLaughlin promotes the Bible by putting it in snappy covers, plugging slogans like "Give a Bible...