Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small cardboard box which Charles Cochran, a Tennessee barber, carried when he entered his New Market yard one evening last week contained his dead baby daughter, born three months premature at a hospital 18 miles away. The doctor had worked on her for an hour and a half; given up. Barber Cochran put her on a shelf in his smoke house for burial next day. Next afternoon when he opened the box the baby began to cry. Rushed back to the hospital, she lived for 24 hours, then died permanently...
...Annapolis midshipman named Joseph SpielVogel. He left Annapolis and one day, while studying engineering in Newark, N. J., he found himself fingering some crepe paper in a 5? & 10? store. The result was the Vogel-type aligning paper which he put on the market in 1934. It is a finely corrugated paper, ruled so that it can be torn in narrow horizontal strips and cemented to a backing sheet. The typist writes on the corrugated side and, when finished, takes a pair of tweezers, lifts the strips loose, stretches them so that the lines typewritten on them conform...
...Pure Oil Co., oil sources in Illinois have the same advantage as those in Michigan: nearness to the company's biggest retail market. They are also valuable for another reason. Pure Oil's principal field is the Van Field in East Texas, 80% of which it owns. Last year when Texas production seemed excessive the Texas Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the allowable for the Van Field, compelling Pure Oil to buy 11,000,000 barrels from other producers-twice as much as the year before. As a result Pure Oil's profit...
...Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio Co. stock for 50? a share, then selling the stock at market prices and pocketing fat profits. Harris Hammond and three other directors were found liable for more than $2,000,000. "Tony" Biddle in 1935 compromised his claim and sailed off to become the New Deal's Minister to Norway. The judgment against Hammond stood...
...Snellenburg & Co., catering to thrifty buyers of low-priced goods, has been doing a lively business on Market Street since 1889 when the Snellenburg boys moved into that famed shopping centre from South Street. Distinctly high-class was- and is-Snellenburg's firm of lawyers, Brown & Williams, a rock-ribbed partnership of dignified Philadelphia tradition which employs only male stenographers. "General" Francis Shunk Brown, a righteous oldster of 79, is the senior partner. "General" Brown is also president of the Board of City Trusts, and that institution, through its administration of the Girard Estate, acts as Snellenburg...