Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Alice Foote MacDougall added one more item to her list of things for sale. Announced was the formation of Alice Foote MacDougall. Inc., a corporation to operate the restaurant and food products business. Within a month will be offered for sale 105,000 shares of common stock at about $3.25 per share. The company has an authorized issue of 500,000 shares, of which 350,000 will be outstanding. As an inducement to buy, the company can cite a $1,684,000 volume of gross business last year. Peak year was 1929, with $2,100,000. Over...
...First item in the C. R. O. campaign was advertisements reminiscent of War time. A young New York advertising agent named J. Sterling Getchell prepared a set of six page spreads. Col. Knox was enthusiastic. In four days this publicity was manufactured free and distributed to dailies throughout the land with the request that they run it without charge as their contribution to the C. R. O. drive. Typical theme: a row of giant locomotives with this headline: "Let's go America! Put those idle dollars back to work and start things rolling...
...Pittsburgh's daily newspapers carried the item, with great regret, that you were leaving the air. I am terribly disappointed. You know that radio has often been branded as a moron's source of entertainment, and in the majority of instances this would seem to be the case. Perhaps your withdrawal has been influenced by this thought. But, when sponsors such as you leave the air, the radio can then be truly damned for all its moronic worth...
...Pittsburgh Press news item: "Sad, sad news. The March of Time quits marching next month. To the everlasting credit of the sponsor, it should be noted here that the March of Time was perhaps the finest dramatic presentation ever...
...combination in restraint of trade. For four years, said the United States in Fly-Rice words, the Institute had been operating an elaborate and far-reaching scheme to fix high prices for refined sugar. On 44 counts the Institute was guilty, said the United States, of conspiracy, monopoly, coercion. Item: its members have blacklisted certain warehouses, wholesale grocers for refusing to cooperate; they have forced brokers and others in the sugar trade to open their books to the Institute's detectives and accountants; they have induced or compelled beet sugar refiners (none of whom belong to the Institute) to adopt...