Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock from some 7,500,000 to 12,500,000, thereby potentially capitalizing the company at $1,250,000,000. From new stock to be issued at terms to be fixed, cash will be received to redeem all the bonds of the parent company. Thus Steel common becomes "as good as a bond," which was the astoundingly imaginative ambition of Steel's Creator Morgan...
...Good, Bad. It should be noticed that even Mr. Hollister distinguishes between the good testimonial (unpaid for, voluntary) and the bad testimonial (bought, solicited). It is difficult to see how any publisher can question the advertiser's word concerning the legitimacy of testimonials and it is even more difficult to imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become...
...scarce as to furniture. On the walls hang many photographs of family Blumenthal groups-the various Blumenthals with their wives and children and an old group picture of the five brothers. The Blumenthals are best known through their Raisinettes, a specialty consisting of a chocolate-embedded raisin. Another good Blumenthal seller is a peanut coated with chocolate. All the Blumenthals are excellent pinochle players...
Their first office was a room in a queer two-story house on East 17th Street. After more than a year, with idea firm in mind, with friendly valuable advice from great and good friends, with what only they deemed sufficient capital,* and with a gradually assembled group of enthusiasts,† they issued, under date of March 3, 1923, the first Newsmagazine-TIME. Thereafter to Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...
...Howard Newspapers: "The death of Briton Hadden robs American journalism of one of its greatest promises. His youthful viewpoint struck a new note and a wholesome one. His co-workers will carry on the success he helped achieve, but the task will be heavier despite their determination to make good his absence from their ranks...