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High Speed. At the end of nine months, circulation was up to 20,000, back issues were selling at a premium (current rate for the first one: $5), and the venture was in the black. In September 1949, Lindsay and Petersen launched Motor Trend magazine for auto buffs in the...
One day he went to the struggling Mission Bell Manufacturing Co., (radios), which owed him $400, and found a sheriff's sign over the door. Hoffman thought it looked like a good chance to get into the radio business. He raised $10,000 and bought the company (later changing...
U.S. Plywood had been grossing more than $1,000,000 annually for seven years when in 1932 Seattle bankers asked Ottinger to take over a big plywood mill that faced bankruptcy. His stiff terms: 50% of all profits and none of the losses. The bankers agreed, and wisely; the mill...
Beating the big-timers comes easily to brisk Jack Moone. In 1945, he quit his job as frozen-foods sales manager of General Foods' Birds Eye Snider Division. With two other General Foods executives, Nathaniel B. Barclay and Martin Matthews, who quit at the same time, he Bounded Snow...
Big Day. Before breakfast at his home on the beachfront in Santa Monica, Zanuck begins a chain-smoking day with one of his eight-inch cigars-the first of 20-and a phone call on his private wire to the studio to find out how movies-his own and competitors...