Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements for the trade called The Phantom of Crestwood "the picture that was presold to a hundred million," assured exhibitors that "all America wants to know who killed Jenny Wren...
...true that 100 million persons want to know who killed Jenny Wren, it is a pity that the matter cannot be settled immediately and forever. This is impossible. It may be that in the picture the gaunt spinster is the one who jabs Jenny. But the prizes for endings will not be awarded until Thanksgiving and the prize-winners need not conform with the picture. The only satisfactory ending for The Phantom of Crestwood would be to borrow the glass barrel in Six Hours to Live (see col. 1), allow Jenny Wren to settle the matter herself...
...conception has been that we should devote our funds to relatively few, carefully considered large projects. . . . Take the case of the Rockefeller Institute [for Medical Research] After the idea of it was conceived ... we said to my father, 'Here's a great gamble. You may plant one million or five millions and get no crop in the form of medical discovery. The average man cannot afford to put in several million dollars without knowing definitely that there will be tangible results...
...feelings as because of a traditional journalistic policy that those who do not advertise, and have no intention of advertising, are no fit subjects for publicity. There was nevertheless, a story in10? cigarets-a year ago practically unheard of, today burning up at the rate of about 60 million a day. One out of every five cigarets smoked in the U. S. now is a 20-for-10? brand...
...could not smoke Cellophane. In June arrived the fourth national 10? cigaret- Twenty Grand, also from Louisville. Its sales soon passed those of White Rolls and Paul Jones, ran the ten-centers percentage up to 15. Last week that percentage was 20. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. was making 18 million Twenty Grands a day, with unfilled orders piled high. Wings were rolling out of the machines at the rate of 50 million per day. White Rolls and Paul Jones were still selling well. These four brands had taken advantage of cheap tobacco, the advertising done by the "standard brands...