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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Halcyon days of the U. S. sport of gliding were in 1929. Airplane tycoons like Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, spent big money to promote it because expert glider pilots can easily learn to fly motored planes. Detroit Aircraft Corp. purchased Gliders, Inc., biggest U. S. glider manufacturer, planned to sell gliders at cost. Glider clubs began to be organized. Conservative enthusiasts predicted 1,000,000 glider pilots...
...automotive adman. Born in Buffalo 60-odd years ago ("I have never bothered to look it up"), he has at one time or another written copy for practically every existent make of automobile, many a defunct one. Cadillac and Pontiac are now the chief accounts of MacManus, John & Adams Inc. "T. F." MacManus has never learned to drive...
Without the Bonus, the subcellar fundamentals of Supply & Demand are still in favor of better business. As a result of Government spending purchasing power has exceeded general demand for nearly three long years. Inventories have declined steadily. In the opinion of Economics Statistics Inc., continuation of Government spending "will soon, if it has not already done so, reduce inventories to such a low point that it will be necessary for production to be increased not only in line with current demand but at an even faster rate in order that inventories may be replenished." Continued this specialist in supply & demand...
...Clarence Saunders astounded the grocery trade by starting Piggly-Wiggly Stores, Inc., in which customers did most of the work, got their groceries cheaply. Receiving a basket at an entrance turnstile, a shopper picked up her own purchases, carried them to the cashier's desk at the exit. By 1923 Grocer Saunders was rich and Piggly-Wiggly was a $7,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Enraged at reports of wolfish raids on Piggly-Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated...
...Copyright, 1936, by Time Inc...