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...regulars (some now at foreign posts) to the San Francisco mikes: NBC's H. V. Kaltenborn, Robert St. John; CBS's Bob Trout, Major George Fielding Eliot, William Shirer, Eric Sevareid; Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr., Gabriel Heatter, Upton Close; Blue's "Principal Interpreter" Ray mond Gram Swing, Walter Winchell, Vincent Sheean, Drew Pearson...
...this prosperity, as A.C.B.'s natty, 55-year-old president James Edward Al mond well recalls, is a far cry from 1913, when the company was formed. A.C.B. began by setting up chambers of commerce in U.S. cities. It collected only $40,000 the first year, charged its fees on a percentage basis. (A.C.B. now charges a flat weekly rate of $400 per man on the job. What the man is paid is a deep A.C.B. secret.) In 1920, the company began soliciting business from churches, colleges, hospitals, and even the great national relief organizations...
...have good social legislation and also good jobs for all. I believe ... we can have both. . . . We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society." "No Hush-Hush Peace." Dewey en trained for Louisville, making two plat form appearances on the way, at Rich mond and Indianapolis. Neither had been advertised in advance; the crowds that turned out were small. In Louisville, Dewey rode through almost empty streets to the Brown Hotel...
...leave every year for other posts or retirement. These are replaced by bright newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark...
...single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...