Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth of LIFE was not without its bright side for Publisher Bourjaily. Wanting only the old Life's name when they bought it. TIME Inc. sold Life's subscription list, features and goodwill to Judge, to which the U. S. comic monthly field was thus left wide open. Monte Bourjaily immediately stepped in and bought Judge from its printers (Kable Bros, of Mt. Morris, Ill.). Last week he was able to report that Judge's circulation was up to 252.750 to which he would for the time being add Midweek Pictorial's 32,750 subscribers, devoting...
...still far from settled. As a disturber of U. S. peace, the Sit-Down Strike had just begun to fight. In Detroit alone, eight small factories were held by a total of 2,600 sit-downers, mostly women. President Walter Fry of Detroit's Fry Products Inc. (automobile seat covers) thought up a new twist when he sat down with his 150 sitting employes, ordered dinner for the crowd, promised to sit it out with the best of them. "If they won't work. I won't, and unless I work and sell, they...
Died. Goldie Balaban Levin, 67, mother of Chicago's seven Balaban brothers (President Barney of Paramount Pictures Inc., Harry, Elmer, John, David, A. J. and the late Max), who rented their first motion picture theatre with her $500 capital, built up the $20,000,000 Balaban & Katz chain; after brief illness; in Miami...
...Hopkins is president of a company called National Electric Ballots Inc., which hopes to make lease arrangements with radio makers. There are 23,000,000 sets in the U. S. If Hopkins attachments were installed in the next 2,300,000 new sets before they are sold, broadcasters would be able to obtain votes from a 10% cross-section of the U. S. radio audience...
Died. Hugh M. Freer, 68, vice president of Standard Brands, Inc., New Jersey cattleraiser, uncle of Federal Trade Commissioner Robert Elliott Freer; of heart disease; in Manhattan...