Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best in New York City. In its first full-page newspaper ads fortnight ago, Pepsi-Cola announced it had outsold "any other Cola drink in bottles" by more than 50% in the metropolitan district, had outrun, in fact, all the "Cola" drinks, of which there are some 35 in New York alone...
Fortnight ago, while the more conservative Metropolitan Milk Producers Bargaining Agency (45,000 members) was asking the Federal-State administrator to up the price of Class I milk from $2.25 to $2.82, Archie Wright took a bolder step. He announced D. F. U. was going to strike, not only against present prices, but against the whole "blended price" system. His demand: that farmers be paid $2.35 per cwt. no matter what use was made of milk. So war was declared...
...bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition. The national edition went out to some...
...young auctioneer named Thomas E. Kirby and partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...
...much for the old auction house. Last fortnight creditors who had consigned its goods for sale demanded their money. Last week New York City's Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss suspended its license. Meanwhile, the Parke-Bernet Galleries stepped in, leased the building on Madison Avenue from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., its owner, prepared to carry on the old building under their new name...