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McKesson's far-flung subsidiaries were once independent local drug wholesalers. When Coster lured these wholesalers (over 50 of them) into his gigantic merger during 1928-37, he paid them handsomely in McKesson stock, but he made sure he got the best in each area. So firmly were these houses and their salesmen entrenched in the U. S. drug trade that the Coster suicide affected their sales hardly at all. Within nine months after the trustee took over, McKesson sales made a new high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: McKesson Leaves the Court | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...worthy of the book, as great as the play, equal to the "Grapes of Wrath." John Ford was selected for director. Charley Grapewin, one of the finest character actors in films, was given the role of Jeeter Lester. Gene Tierney was selected for the sluttish Lester daughter after a far-flung talent search. The best photographers in Hollywood, superb make-up artists, perfectly realistic sets were assembled. Hollywood held its breath and Darryl F. Zanuck counted the Academy Awards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/27/1941 | See Source »

...became pretty clear as news of the conversations leaked out. No doubt Rome and Berlin were not above trying to throw a scare into the world by making their plans sound vague and big, but there was also little doubt that those plans took into account far-flung moves and their consequences. Discussed were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dividing Up the World | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...most of the onlookers (and the far-flung radio listeners as well) it was like picking up the threads of a serial. But they got their bearings quickly. Before the giant clock had registered three-and-a-half minutes, Southern California's Ambrose Schindler, hero of last winter's Rose Bowl game, was up to his old tricks. Intercepting a forward pass, he scooted 40 yards to the Packers' 17-yard line, plunged over for a touchdown three plays later. A successful drop kick for the extra point was made by Halfback Nile Kinnick, the passing, punting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kickoff | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Italy's object in the far-flung bush battles of the war in East Africa is to bite off pieces of France's colonies in the north, gain control of Egypt and the Suez, and bite into Great Britain's holdings in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Bush Battles | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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