Word: donnelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Print order for the U. S. Rising Tide, at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., big Chicago printers, jumped last week from 500,000 to 800,000. Already the magazine had been snapped up wherever it went on trial sale. Fortified with $50,000 donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about...
...individual's means, but The Model Railroader finds that the average hobbyist spends $200 to $250 a year. Typical assembly kit for assembling a baggage coach costs $10.50, a passenger coach $11.50. Biggest manufacturer of parts is Scale-Models Inc. of Chicago, headed by tall young (34) Elliott Donnelley, who left the big printing business of which his father is chairman, Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., because of his enthusiasm for model railroads...
...worst nightmare a Sears catalog man can have is that a Ward man has learned in advance how much Sears is charging for votive candles or alfalfa forks and has underbid Sears by a few cents. To guard against such peeking, at the Chicago printing plant of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), which shares this enormous order with W. F. Hall Printing Co.. the production space allotted to Ward and that to Sears are as carefully separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University. If a representative...
...hundred and twenty presses are now drumming out 200,000 catalogs a day, will not complete their run until sometime in September. Donnelley's has four-color presses in which special chemicals dry the ink quickly, machines which wrap and label 8000 books an hour. Five hundred girls do nothing but hand-work- inserting color pages and swatches of cloth. One girl can stick on 1000 swatches an hour-about one every three seconds. In binding the books no stitching is used; the pages are stuck together as they whiz through a glueing machine...
Married. Dorothy Williams Ranney, 25, daughter of George Alfred Ranney, Chicago utility man; and Gaylord Donnelley, 25, son of Chairman Thomas Elliott Donnelley of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), printers of TIME; in Chicago...