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Organized for Luxury. During the Aquacade period, Billy stopped running for the first time and contemplated his million-dollar money belt. He was a famous showman. His nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe (started in 1938), was grossing $1,250,000 a year, and ranked with Grant's Tomb and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Two days later the clean laundry was back in Hilo. Soon Dodds had more business than he could handle. By last week the Dodds Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was handling some 3,000 Ibs. of laundry and 50 suits a day at slightly higher prices than those of Hilo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Laundry Wagon | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

By the time Albert Malsin died in 1923, Lane Bryant's was grossing $5,000,000 a year. Under the presidency of Lane Bryant's oldest son, Raphael Bryant Malsin, 47 (who took over in 1938), it has continued to expand. Lane Bryant Malsin is still on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Pregnant & Plump | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

For the last six months listeners had "knocked" 2,500 to 3,000 "hunks of linen" a week to the 1280 Club's M.C., young (28), vacant-faced Fred Robbins. Last week Robbins was sent by the cheers of his "dicty" public into a top job-the M.C. spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

In St. Louis, The Outlaw - grossing some $20-$30,000 a week - had turned out to be the city's favorite movie. It was also the No. i cinemattraction in Kansas City, Indianapolis, Louisville.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That Outlaw | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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