Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dougal Herr on Marriage, Divorce and Separation in New Jersey. His pay at first was $40 a week, was later reported at $50 and $60. In addition his author-employer, Advisory Master in Chancery Dougal Herr, gave him a 40% stock interest in a firm called Legal Publications, Inc. of Hoboken, formed to publish and sell the book...
...alleged that: 1) Ghost Kenny got together with William A. Kaufmann, Author Herr's law partner and holder of 20% of the stock of Legal Publications, Inc.; 2) controlling a combined 60% of the stock, Kenny and Kaufmann thereupon voted themselves $400 a week salaries out of proceeds from selling the book; 3) Kenny, who had been hired principally to do laborious legal research, rewrote the preface to give himself credit for his work, an unheard of action for a ghost...
...Cracked down on the wood-cased lead pencil industry. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Lead Pencil Assn. Inc., President William A. McDermid and 13 member companies which account for more than 90% of U. S. production, charged them with price fixing, unlawfully restricting, monopolizing and eliminating competition after a 1935-36 price...
...future the stubby Ex-boats will carry delicate weather instruments as well as tractors, copper, hides and hemp, marble, oil and tin. The instruments will record weather conditions for Export's year-old subsidiary-American Export Airlines, Inc. If their data gives as clear a green light as last week's stock issue, test flights will start next spring with a Consolidated flying boat...
Fortnight ago Frank R. Coutant, director of research for the advertising agency of Pedlar & Ryan, Inc., estimated that even though use of market research has jumped 50% in the last three years, U. S. industry is spending a mere $4,500,000 a year for it. (Estimated expenditure for engineering research: $300,000,000.) Only a handful of the biggest U. S. companies indulge in market research to an appreciable extent* and of these General Motors makes the biggest splash, spending something less than $500,000 a year for the purpose...