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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than a month ago, Publisher Stern arranged to get new money not only for the Post but for his Record-$1,000,000 for the latter, principally from Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank, of which Dave Stern is a onetime advisory director, and nearly $2,000,000 for the former from "outside sources." In addition, on the Post, a $5,000-a-week budget cut was begun. Of its 142 editorial employes, twelve were fired-as were 23 of 180 Record editorial employes. The financial pages of both papers were dropped. And Dave Stern, whose papers...
...get working capital last July, the old and often shaky Boston Transcript (circulation 29,423) asked its employes for 10% non-interest-bearing salary loans. The loans, however, were not enough to keep it afloat. Last week an attachment of its accounts by a $29,500 creditor forced the Transcript to go into U. S. District Court, petition for 77B reorganization-its second shake-up in two years...
...advertisers. He was the first to apply psychologists' findings about the mathematical laws of chance to polling. He analyzed standard tables of accuracy, found that with 5,000 interviews of a carefully selected, economically proportional cross-section, he could come within 1% of the result he would get by polling the entire population; with 20,000 interviews, within one half of 1%. To make his sample representative in a general poll of public opinion, Dr. Link questions 4,000 to 10,000 people (depending on the question) in 70 cities and towns throughout the U. S., in four economic...
...block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used to it. "There was very little post-operative reaction or discomfort," said the Survey. "The patient masticated food at the end of the fourth day and was discharged six days later...
...underwriting and the troubles of SEC registration. Chief buyers are big insurance companies, which generally take an entire issue. This tends to give the insurance companies substantial say in the management of the issuer. Before Phillips Petroleum could market last week's issue, for instance, it had to get permission from a group of insurance firms to which it sold $23,000,000 in debentures in 1935 and 1937. To many a SEC official such circumstances have long spelled monopoly. Last week SEC began its long-expected investigation of monopoly in insurance companies by sending an exhaustive questionnaire...