Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed to issue patented, pink & blue Raychecks in denominations of 50? to $10, have merchants redeem them in goods or U. S. currency at face value. Redemption funds would come from consumers, who would have to buy stamps and paste them on their...
This week people who found the Whitney Museum's selection of 20th-century painting already turning tamely classic could rush off to the Associated American Artists' businesslike galleries, where to most of the 58 members of An American Group, Inc. classic was a fighting word. Their exhibition of paintings, sculpture and wood carvings was as up-to-the-minute as an air raid, often as violent and savage...
...December 1940, but for the last three years broadcasters have been girding for a great fight to break ASCAP's hold on U, S. music. Last week in Chicago, NAB got in a showy bit of brandishing, by voting to organize something to be called Broadcast Music, Inc. Subject to SEC requirements, stock will be sold to broadcasters up to one-half their 1937 payments to ASCAP. In 1937 ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music, Inc.: to "uncover a wealth of new talent...
...Nieman Fellows and Friday evening the first of the regular Nieman dinners was held at the Signet Society's clubhouse. Featured speakers at Friday night's were Archibald MacLeish, now Librarian of the Library of Congress in Washington; Ralph M. Ingorsoll, former member of the staff of Time, Inc.; and Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who attended many of the dinners last year and showed considerable interest in the work of the Nieman Foundation...
Last February the Interstate Commerce Commission, which supervises all vehicular interstate haulage for hire, was confronted with an odd request. A man named Clarence Young Rose wanted permission to continue to operate what he called Georgia Caravan Camps Inc., which consisted of an annual cross-country trip of a large group of adolescents in a fleet of truckbusses, led, for cash, by Mr. Rose. Before granting the license, the ICC thought it wise to have a good look at Clarence Young Rose and the Georgia Caravan Camps Inc. Its findings: Clarence Young Rose is a big handsome 51-year...