Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleaned Up. In McKeesport, Pa., OPAdministrator Kenneth Whitaker upheld a customer's claim that a dry-cleaning firm had no business charging him 10? extra a suit because he weighed...
...idea for it did not originate with us. It began with Robert J. Smallwood, president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. (tea and soups), who felt that his firm, being a food company, had a special obligation to try to do something about helping the hungry peoples of the world. He asked his advertising agency, Young & Rubicam, for suggestions, and they decided that the MARCH OF TIME'S kind of presentation was best suited...
...Government agency downtown for a friend who needs help, and generally confounds people who expect him to act his age. In April he issued another of his periodic manifestoes for a third party. Other favorite recreations : double-crostics and letter writing (he has a voluminous correspondence) in his firm, open longhand...
Springboard. Perry is a 65-year-old Kentuckian who got into the newspaper business as a lawyer, once owned a piece of the Seattle Star. By 1918 he had saved enough money to buy control of American Press Association, a firm that annually places $3,000,000 worth of national ads in weekly papers...
Oddly enough, there is nothing to prevent a Canadian firm from taking over and publishing a banned book like Bernard Clare. The responsibility for its approval or rejection then rests with the attorneys general of the different provinces...