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...West gag line. One person offered ?100 for the rights to it. Since Askey was under contract to BBC he could not sell the gag, but he figured on doing something about it at the expiration of his contract March 15. Fortnight ago, on Page i of The Exchange & Mart, there appeared a two-inch advertisement that angered Big-hearted Arthur and the BBC no end. "Britain's Best Cleaner," it read, with the initials in boldface so that nobody could miss the point, "Askitoff will take it off." Investigation revealed that an enterprising new outfit called Askitoff Cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Askitoff (Adv.) | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Indefatigable Chairman McKinsey, who had never before held a corporate job, was nothing if not drastic. He lopped off the losing wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. He reorganized the management of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space, much of it vacant. He consolidated the manufacturing division's 24 mills, marked out a sweeping program for it. About all he did not alter appreciably was Marshall Field's retail division, which had lost money only once in 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Change of Policy | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Jealous as a hen with one chick is Grand Rapids of its furniture shows. Mad as a wet hen is Grand Rapids when Chicago's bigger furniture shows are compared to Grand Rapids'. Pointing out that at the Chicago Mart buyers can purchase anything from iron nails to beef on the hoof, Grand Rapidans boast that their Market sells only furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Classics Streamlined | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Ballerina (Pathe Joinville-Cinatlantica). Brilliant cinema treatment by French Director Jean Benoit-Levy (La Maternelle) of La Mart du Cygne, Paul Morand's story about the backstage life of apprentice ballet dancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...months later, as League members fumed at him, shrewd Salvadorean President Martínez formally acknowledged the new state in the hope that the vast territory might prove a potent coffee market for El Salvador's only important crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Belated Appreciation | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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