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...short life of Christmas trees and their festal market has inspired produce dealers to describe this sideline to their business as "the greatest of crapshooting games." Greatest U. S. Christmas crap-shooter was a Manhattan jobber named George Blanck, who cornered the market in 1916. He was supposed to have made $100,000 that year. In Portland, Me. people still talk about old Edward K. Chapman, who was for years a towering figure in the Christmas tree trade, although he never gave a Christmas present in all his life. Bearded as snowily as Santa Claus and a lover of balsam...
Apparent reason for this agitation on behalf of the onion was this year's bumper onion crop, estimated at 45,000 carloads, compared to 30,000 in 1935. U. S. "Onion King" is Benjamin Balish, a big Manhattan produce jobber who was made chair man of the Onion Committee last week. Meantime, the possibilities of a contest for the unsavory job of being U. S. "Onion Queen" remained unexplored. Last week in Denver, however, a seed dealer named Armin Barteldes, elated by a record seven- acre yield of 227,558 Ib. of onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself...
...Godfrey, son of a jobber salesman, was too tall and thin to play football in Grand Rapids (Mich.) High School. He decided he wanted to be a painter. He studied drawing in Grand Rapids Junior College, went to Chicago in 1930 to take commercial art at the American Academy. Year later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place for an artist...
Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
...Japanese novelty makers on learning of Prince George's engagement to Princess Marina (TIME, Sept. 10) promptly began stamping out at Osaka last week "George and Marina badges" to be peddled in London at the time of the wedding, date not yet announced. Said the leading Japanese bunting jobber of Kobe, "We shipped to Australia several weeks ago a very large proportion of the flags and bunting they will use to greet the Duke of Gloucester" (see above...