Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better expenditures on the same old things for which money has been spent for years. Something new in big campaign costs is radio. Such a minor party as the Communists will have a total broadcasting bill of $35,000 with National Broadcasting alone. The same firm announced that the Republican National Committee had up to last week spent $265,000 for use of its networks, and the Democratic National Committee -which had the advantage ear lier in the campaign of "free air" for sev eral of the President's "non-political" speeches -had spent $165,000. By the time...
...Italy and Germany, while not actually breaking off relations with the Radical Madrid Government, agreed last week that the White Government whose troops were advancing on the capital "enjoys the firm support of the Spanish people in the majority of the provinces. . . ." Thus Rome and Berlin hinted their intention to recognize the Whites as the government of Spain as soon as Madrid should fall...
There never was an N. W. Ayer in the old Philadelphia advertising firm of N. W. Ayer & Son. The late Francis Wayland Ayer simply named the firm in honor of his father when he founded it in 1869. There are no Ayers at all in the firm today. Through the years the partnership of N. W. Ayer & Son stuck to its motto, "Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success," waxed rich on many & many a small account, some big ones like those of Ford Motor Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph. By 1928 the firm had grown so large that it built...
Last week Ayer's solemn progress was rudely disturbed by one of those things the old firm so deplores in the affairs of its livelier corporate clients -a well-publicized fight for stock control. The year its new building was finished, N. W. Ayer & Son was converted into a corporation with a stock ownership limited to Ayer officers and employes. Control, how ever, continued to rest in the hands of President Wilfred Washington Fry until his death last summer (TIME...
...portfolio of any tycoon who collects etchings will almost certainly be found plates by one or more of the great Scottish trio who are currently the highest priced print-makers in the world: Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron, James McBey. In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60. It was no place for the impecunious. The prints ranged from $72 to $1,500, the water colors from $85 to more than $350 apiece...