Word: loon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Loon Van Bellingham operates at fullback and his forte is running. Last year he was the fifth man in the backfield, subbing at halfback for Jack Nork end at fullback for Kusserow. He was ineligible for the Amherst game because he took a makeup exam during the summer and his mark just came in Wednesday. Madar thus didn't get a chance...
Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...
...Macy & Co., customers lined up by the hundred this week to have their pictures taken. But these were not ordinary photos; they gave the illusion of being three-dimensional. The new process, called VitaVision, was the latest moneymaker of Matthew Fox, cinemaker and Bub-O-Loon man (TIME, Sept...
Ballooning Profits. Fox & friends gambled $175,000 and borrowed more from banks to manufacture and market Bub-O-Loon. He took in two partners, who got together a company to work out the tricky process of putting the plastic into the tubes, and lined up nine plants in seven cities to turn out the tubes...
From an initial production of 14,000 tubes a day, Bub-O-Loon production last week had expanded to 400,000 tubes daily. The company was already grossing $100,000 a day. As the Vinylite plastic (purchased in bulk from Bakelite Corp.) cost only 14? per 49? tube, a large part of the gross was profit. There was only one hole in the bubble. The formula for turning vinyl plastic into Bub-O-Loon was so simple that Fox did not think it could be patented. Already competitors were turning out more than 100,000 tubes a day. When...