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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market a few years ago by famed old Parker Bros. Inc. was a game called Monopoly, ingeniously designed to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. It was an instantaneous success. Last week President Roosevelt, from motives as mixed as they were imperative, dusted off an older and political form of Monopoly which has been played by successive Administrations with varying degrees of enthusiasm for upward of half a century...
...laggard to take to the courts against Section 11 of the Public Utility Act of 1935-the section described in the press as "the death sentence"-was American Water Works & Electric Co. Inc. Last February American Water Works withdrew its suit and registered with SEC. Five months ago American Water Works became one of the first of some 90 holding companies which are now registered with SEC to file a voluntary plan for reorganization. And last week SEC, pleased to find a public utility that wanted to cooperate, gave its approval in all major respects...
...Divorced last week from the book publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons was Scribner's Magazine. Harland Logan Associates Inc. henceforth will publish Scribner's. Charles Scribner's Sons retain controlling interest in the new corporation, which soon will bring out a digest of radio programs. When 33-year-old Harland Logan became editor-publisher of Scribner's 15 months ago he applied all he had learned as Conde Nast and Macfadden consultant, lifted Scribner's face, streamlined its figure. In 15 months Scribner's 40.000 subscribers trebled...
About six weeks ago American Airlines got a new advertising agency-Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Shortly afterward there began to appear in newspapers and magazines large advertisements, decorated with a photograph of an exuberant girl in a bathing suit and captioned rhetorically: Is there a Low-Level Airway through Southern Sunshine to California? "Fortunately" said the advertisement, "the answer...
...Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries are Italian Swiss Colony with a storage capacity of about 13,000,000 gallons, Fruit Industries Ltd., a growers' co-operative with a storage capacity of 19,500,000 gallons, and Roma Wine Co., Inc. which is now expanding to 20,000,000 gallons. Last week his polyglot members had something to rejoice in together. They had just completed this year's crushing of grapes, 700,000 tons of them-out of the greatest grape crop in California's history...