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Word: graybar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great corporations, by occasional A. & P. store managers when he drops in for a chat, but he is very. very seldom heard of by the consuming public. Brother George is not heard of or recognized at all. He sits in his bare office in Manhattan's Graybar Building and tends as strictly and shrewdly to A. & P. finances as he did when, as a plump boy of 15, he counted A. & P. money in the cashier's cage on Vesey Street. In his homely way he decided that things were going too fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Atlantic & Pacific Brothers | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...trips to the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, Conn. and the Glenn L. Martin factory in Balti more, to watch progress on big flying boats abuilding for Pan American. Every Tues day, and often on other days, he goes up the street a block from the Chanin Building to the Graybar, to his duties as technical chairman of Transcontinental & West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lindberghs Fly | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...give up hope was lean, grey-haired John Reynard Todd of the engineering firm of Todd Robertson Todd.* In New York his firm is responsible for the much admired Graybar and Cunard buildings. John Reynard Todd is a great & good friend of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. A qualified lawyer, he is an able pleader. Last May he had many interviews with Mr. Rockefeller, with Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co. and with officials of Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In June it was announced that the great project would go forward, not as an opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Radio City | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Campaign of Industrial Products ($2,000)- won by Newell-Emmett Co. (Manhattan), for the campaign of Graybar Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard Awards | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Newell-Emmett Company, New York, carried off the fourth $2,000 award, that for a campaign of industrial products, by their work for the Graybar Electric Company. The remaining major prize, for research conspicuous in furthering the knowledge and science of advertising, was won by P. W. Stewart, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, for the research titled: "Market Data Handbook of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE BOK ADVERTISING PRIZE WINNERS NAMED | 3/1/1930 | See Source »

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