Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigarettes by cinema stars and society leaders have always had more glamor than reliability. This week, however, it appeared that the U. S. consumer was going to get more authentic recommendation in one field. In the current issue of Staff, "The official and only magazine of the Butlers Club, Inc., for the better household staffs of homes, estates, yachts," appeared the announcement that the Butlers Club will make kitchen tests of foods and drinks which, if approved, will be awarded a decorative seal: "Used and Approved by the Executive Committee of the Butlers Club, Inc...
...month after signing its first contract with a national press association (United Press) and its first contract with a Hearst paper in New York City (Mirror), the Newspaper Guild last week signed a one-year contract with TIME Inc., covering 350 employes of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and the MARCHES OF TIME (radio and cinema). Some provisions: five-day, 40-hour week, with equal time off for overtime; severance pay of one and one-half week's peak salary for each six months of service up to a maximum of $5,000. Minimum wages: $20 a week...
...when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used the money to start a business of his own. In Times Square last week...
...candid cameraddict, Douglas Leigh used to tramp along Broadway taking pictures of possible sign locations. Then he would concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year...
...issue of serial notes yielding from 1¾% to 2½%. In early bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 bond issue last month (TIME, June 13). Whereas Big Steel's big issue was to finance plans laid some time...