Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week announcement was made of a new company which will provide cheap, efficient, attractive homes at prices which will cross the frontier of the. low-salaried worker. In scope as well as in name, General Houses, Inc., will resemble the highly-articulated automobile company which caters to all classes. First statement about the new company and its purposes was made in the July issue of FORTUNE...
...Aylesworth's advice last week. They could not have been startled by the information that they were in a fierce financial pickle. Since talkies were established in 1928. the cinema business has been going rapidly downhill. Last year was its worst. Of first-line companies, only Loew's, Inc. (of which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the producing subsidiary) made an appreciable profit ($7.43 per share). The others made a panicky attempt to economize by cutting salaries and production costs; to increase efficiency by bizarre shifts in personnel; to increase profits by copying any picture that showed signs of making money...
While a torrent of gold poured in through his magazines, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden could afford to ignore the rivulets which trickled out through his unprofitable Manhattan tabloid Evening Graphic. But Macfadden Publications Inc.. which earned $1,839,000 in 1928, earned only $1,395,000 in 1930.* Few months ago Publisher Macfadden, for the first time, turned his personal attention to the Graphic, which has never made money since he started...
Engineered by Aviation Protection Inc., brokers, and Barber & Baldwin Inc., pioneer aviation underwriters, the new plan was made possible by the collection of actuarial statistics on sensible pleasure flying. "Hull coverage" (ground accident, fire, theft) costs 3% of the plane's value; public liability, $50 for the first $10,000; guest passenger liability, $40 for $10,000; property damage, $65 for $5,000. Personal accident insurance, available to members who have soloed 200 hr., costs $7 to $10 per thousand, is limited...
Thus, starting Sept. 9, "The March of Time" returns to the air as a presentation of Columbia Broadcasting System, over CBS's entire network (Fridays at 8:30 p. m. E. D. S. T.). On Nov. 4 the program will return to the sponsorship of Time, Inc., to continue until mid-March over substantially the same coast to coast network as last year...