Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White, Federal and Diamond T trucks, and most trucks made by the automobile companies, went on display downstairs from the gaiety of Chicago's regular Auto Show. Sixty blocks away at Navy Pier, National Motor Truck Show, Inc. (grumbling that Automobile Manufacturers Association had hogged half of its exhibitors) put on a technical truckman's exhibit of new monsters, eight-wheelers, trucks that do two things at once. Individualist Henry Ford played along with both; until the middle of the week he exhibited at A.M.A., and then he moved his exhibit to Navy Pier and opened again...
...Truck Show, Inc...
...enterprising Roosevelts, Elliott, in radio, naturally has the oddest messmates. Oddest of these for a Roosevelt to be hobnobbing with is a Chicago adman named Hill Blackett, mainly famous for having guided Alf Landon's campaign in 1936. The Blackett advertising agency, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc., does the biggest business in radio: mostly sobby, low-cost network serials plugging household helps, headache remedies, beauty aids, etc. to U. S. housewives...
Transcontinental Broadcasting System, Inc., Elliott Roosevelt's venture, is scheduled to go into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny...
...jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head of newly organized National Ice Advertising, Inc., to see what could be done to rehabilitate the industry. Changes followed...