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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricks which First Division Exchanges, Inc., distributors, advises exhibitors to use for publicizing The Big Drive: "On opening night, have supposedly shell-shocked veteran simulate a seizure. Use this as a basis of letters to editors of all newspapers, arraigning the idea of bringing back the horrors of war. Follow up with a dozen letters from legionnaires, etc. defending the picture as an argument for peace...
...Liggett is chairman of Drug, Inc., one of the biggest U. S. industrial concerns (1931 earnings: $19,000,000; assets: $175,000,000). Although Drug owns the Liggett drugstores, its chief source of income is from making and selling such products as Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income...
Last week Druggist Liggett was in London trying to sell Drug, Inc.'s holdings in Boots. For recent years have shown Drug that its real profits are from manufacturing of advertised products and that if babies cry for Fletcher's Castoria they will get it regardless of who owns the corner drugstore. And Drug could make good use of cash to buy in its own bonds at 65? on $1 and to tide over its money-losing Liggett chain of drugstores...
...whip whose popper is another entertainment chain. He is reputed one of the largest stockholders in Chase National Bank. Chase National is the banking sponsor of General Theatres Equipment Corp. (in receivership), which controls Fox Film Corp. with which is affiliated Film Securities Corp. which controls Loew's Inc...
Sued. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta...