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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having promised themselves "the largest magazine circulation in the world" by 1934 (TIME, July 1), publisher-cousins Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson of nickel-weekly Liberty last week moved to make that circulation profitable. They simplified the duties of the general manager who had gotten Liberty's present circulation, by calling in a man better fitted to supervise the getting of Liberty's advertising...
After duplicating his Tribune circulation success with the Patterson-McCormick New York Daily News (largest in the U. S.), Circulator Annenberg was put in charge of circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep...
...Lately he went to the seaboard's playground, Atlantic City, N. J., to institute a new Hippodrome show-house. Last week, in a $15,000,000 auditorium which seats 41,000, he presented Here and There, a pageant calculated to crowd what is reputedly the world's largest indoor stage...
Baseball, ''National Pastime" (largest commercialized sport), passed its mid-season mark in the Big Leagues. Familiar to "fans,"* many a fact about the 1929 season has now become visible to laymen...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is third largest steel company, though far behind Bethlehem. After a good 1926, bad 1927, good 1928, it has broken all peacetime records in 1929. First six months of 1929 have almost equalled the entire year of 1928. Comparative figures: six months 1929, $10,537,373; six months...