Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since no one has seriously advanced the idea of dominion status for the Philippines since the 1946 independence date was set three years ago, Shadow Boxer Quezon's novel cry for "someone else" last week seemed to suggest that what he really wanted was the unbeatable situation of occupying both corners of the ring. At week's end he relaxed from his labors, entered a hospital to have his appendix...
...Schulte's new Manhattan "specialty shops" are really an attempt to brighten up the old 5?-to-$1 idea. To avoid burning his fingers again, David Schulte is making the transition slowly, has imported Stanley Roth, slick merchandiser, from the Golden Rule Department Store in St. Paul, Minn., made him a vice president. Said Mr. Roth: "I think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled...
...gelatine works, he was too poor to hire a sales staff, did his own gelatine selling on the road as a sideline to selling gloves. But when he died in 1908 the Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co, was in anything but prosperous state, for Charles Knox's idea of good gelatine promotion had been race horses wearing the Knox colors and primitive airships bearing the Knox name...
...Washington demanding that all goods have labels identifying their fibre content both so buyers would not be deceived and so they would know how to treat their purchases. During the FTC's year-long study of the matter, 2,000,000 more women sent petitions seconding the idea. Meanwhile, rayon producers grew worried, presented a voluntary set of rules which they agreed to follow. Since these merely restated the status quo, the FTC promptly rejected them. Three weeks ago it formulated its own set of rules, put them into effect at once over the anguished squeals of many...
Nurseryman Zielsdorf was apprised of his good fortune by "The Court of Missing Heirs," a bright radio idea of Skelly Oil Co. Aimed by Skelly Oil point-blank at that immense and sanguine section of the U. S. public which succumbs to bank night and sweepstakes tickets and dreams of unforeseen inheritances, the Court of Missing Heirs is not yet two months old but is already a radio success. Skelly filling stations are confined to the Midwest, so Skelly's Court of Missing Heirs is confined to 29 Columbia Broadcasting System and other Midwest stations. Dramatized each week...