Word: dunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything a man possesses but you can't steal his personality. Am I right or wrong?" Walter Gibson, who has ghostwritten for Dunninger as well as for such other "greats" as Houdini, Blackstone and Thurston, thinks Dunninger is right. "All magicians mix showmanship with their magic," says Gibson. "Dun ninger's on top because he uses only 5% magic and 95% showmanship...
Last week, after a nationwide survey of 1,776 companies, Manhattan's hardheaded Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. predicted that all U.S. sales for the second half of 1949 will show an average decline of only 3.3% under 1948's record total. The group surveyed did not expect more than a drop of 3.6% in profits on the average-ranging from 5.1% for the durable goods companies and 4.2% for the wholesalers, to 3.6% for the retailers and only 2.5% for the non-durables...
Rising Dividends. Dun & Bradstreet's President Arthur Dare Whiteside, wartime boss of civilian production, was struck by one big fact in the survey. The pessimists, said he, were not pessimistic about their own business; they expected to do fine. It was the other fellow who would have the trouble...
...Gabler (K) 56.4; second, Johnston (K); third, Carrol (E); fourth, Bowman (Dun); fifth, Meade (Dun...
...Cameron (W) 10.3; secPearlstein (Dun); third, Bell (E); fourth, Gabler (K); fifth, Toxell...