Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressagent of Manhattan's Roseland dance hall said I. O. U.'s would be accepted from dancers with bank books. Bayuk Cigars, Inc. messaged its salesmen: "In the temporary trial of our courage you must have faith in your country, in your job and in yourself. . . . Bayuk will continue full speed ahead...
...Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days, the engineers told him to ship a heavy solution, halt the tankers...
Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. (cash only), rushed home from the Inaugural, bought a page in New York newspapers to announce a "code." Excerpts...
Last week Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc. advertising agency supplied the missing facts about Jim & Minny. In 1902 Minny Hanff, 17, a buxom Manhattan schoolgirl, began selling verses and children's stories to newspapers. When Hecker H-O Co., makers of Force, held an advertising contest, Minny conceived the character of Sunny Jim, submitted jingles about him. The company paid her $100 for the idea, ordered more verses. Minny got her friend Dorothy Ficken, 16, to draw pictures of Sunny Jim. For a year they were kept busy. Then, to carry out a $1,000,000 advertising program, artists...
...Bradstreet Co. bloomed into the second largest credit agency, with 183 offices in the U.S. and Canada, 17 offices in foreign lands. Last week these two old credit raters announced that they would merge. President Arthur Dare Whiteside of R. G. Dun & Co. will head the new Dun & Bradstreet Inc. Reason for the merger was the complete duplication of services. Each knew approximately the same things about 2,000,000 U.S. people and their business. Each had offices in every important city, each had its own investigators and correspondents putting the same questions to the same 2,000,000 people...