Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cameron Hawley (Executive Suite) has fashioned the better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...
...CASH McCALL (444 pp.)-Cameron Hawley-Houghfon Mifflin...
...gleefully spread by London's anti-Wally press, the duke's secretary announced less politely: "The Duchess of Windsor wishes it to be known that it was on the unanimous recommendation of the three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall's Magazine and [London's] Sunday Express-that Mr. Amory's employment was terminated." With Amory's unfinished 300-page manuscript thus brushed aside as "unsatisfactory" hack work, a brand-new ghost was hastily materialized. Starry-eyed with zest for his task, McKay Co.'s Editor...
Established in 1919, S-M was one of the first publisher-owned agencies for the distribution of magazines to newsstands. It was started by the Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc. and the Mc-Call Corp. The S-M stands for Science and McCall, and this name has not been changed even though the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Meredith Publishing Co. and Street & Smith Publications, Inc. have since joined the organization...
...seat on the board, forced a change in the way the company was leasing its oil lands, later sold most of Ohio Match's holdings for a fat profit. Simon also moved in and got control of Harbor Plywood Corp. and Wesson Oil, is now going into the McCall publishing company. In each case, he calls his opera tions "a technical service to management," rarely fights for complete control unless the company scorns his ideas...