Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 13, in your Letters column Secretary Ickes disputes TIME'S reference to "International Paper Co., which once own stock in the Gannett Newspapers." He asserts that the Federal Trade Commission reported "the name of the firm is International Paper & Power Co." FTC said nothing of the kind. Its final report names International Paper Co. as the concern which, in return for a longterm newsprint contract, helped me to finance the purchase of three newspapers...
...This was the latest of a long series of loans which have bolstered China's economy. Britain had previously loaned $2,500,000 and $25,000,000. The U. S. put up $25,000,000 last December. Fortnight ago Finance Minister H. H. Rung announced that a Belgian firm had agreed to a $100,000,000 loan and that Russia may help soon with a "huge" one. Japan, on the other hand, has not been able to wring a single yen from her busy but broke allies, Germany and Italy...
...advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s. In 1928 they merged with the old firm of George Batten Co. and became...
...difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...
...firm belief of the proponents of the plan that its advantages are such that Yale will soon come to adopt the game sort of sports set-up for the future. Until then, in the individual sports, the Harvard all-House teams will be at an advantage over the champion Yale House team and on close to an equal plane with these individual sports in which Yale has no House team, while in the team sports Harvard will be at a disadvantage in meeting the Eli soccer, lacrosse and rugby regular outfits and on the same plane in the others...