Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second main division of business may be covered under the general heading of distribution. This would include selling, in its broadest sense, and advertising. We may define it as "getting rid of the goods". Most products go through the hands of several salesmen, first perhaps the wholesaler, then the jobber, then the retailer. In the automobile business they go through that part of the organization which has to do with the supervision of agencies, then through the agency itself, and from the salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials...
FRANCIS M. STIFLER Editor "The Main Liner" Ardmore, Pa. Grand Junction...
...Wind-blown rain dampened his hair, clotted his eyebrows. He shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President began to hurry his words, faster, louder, doggedly, as the tattoo of water from above grew louder and louder. It was, Boris must have thought, dismal weather...
...over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading department, presumably modeled along the lines...
...small, thin man (hardly five feet tall) with a brown suit which he has worn so consistently that it is indelibly associated with him. Of German descent, he is an Orthodox Jew, and rarely visits the Exchange on Saturdays except when there is a very threatening bear market. The main plant is in Philadelphia; the New York office, at No. 16 Exchange Place, is small as to staff and scarce as to furniture. On the walls hang many photographs of family Blumenthal groups-the various Blumenthals with their wives and children and an old group picture of the five brothers...