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...fact that store distribution is much cheaper than home delivery has been established in many practical cases. Examples: Washington, D. C.'s Highland Farms sold milk through a chain of stations at 3? under the established 14? price and netted $75,000 in one year on a $100,000 investment. Safeway Stores' cost of delivering milk (including pasteurization, wages, depreciation, etc.) from farm to store customer through its 18-town Pacific Coast chain came to 3? a quart. Safeway complains that in many communities it would like to sell milk several cents cheaper than the law allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Let 'Em Drink Grade A | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...keen-eyed executives tempered by Chrysler: men like B. E. Hutchinson, Fred M. Zeder, Joe Fields. Their fingers were on the controls of every part of Chrysler Corp.'s complicated mechanism. And in the president's paneled office on the fifth floor of the Highland Park plant sat Kaufman Thuma Keller, the same "K. T." who had made the night foray on the Dodge plant eleven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Skirling out of Iowa's tall corn fields, University of Iowa students have formed one of the most unique student musical organization in the U. S. Dressed in colorful plaids ornamented with authentic Scotch paraphernalia, the R. O. T. C. Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piping Kilties Thrill Grid Fans | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

After an announcement by excitable Samuel Goldwyn that he had abandoned Raffles so that Actor David Niven could rejoin the Highland Light Infantry, work on Raffles was hastily resumed when the British Consulate in Los Angeles thought that Actor Niven would not be needed for at least 30 days. Only other Britishers on the active reserve list (liable to immediate call) were John Loder, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the Earl of Warwick, whose Hollywood name is Michael Brooke. Only volunteer to turn up at the Consulate was Actor Alan Mowbray, 43, who was put to work listing other British subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shellshock | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Carroll Binder, Jr., 13, of Highland Park; Highland Park High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Opens Portals to 1000 Incoming Men As Start of 304th Academic Session Approaches | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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