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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Birdwell worked for Selznick International Pictures before setting up shop for himself recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birdwell's Book | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Greyhound Lines and one T. R. McCabe, manager of the Cleveland branch of Beaumont & Hohman, advertising agency which has the Greyhound account, thought the implication more sinister. Mr. McCabe brooded for a spell, then last week wrote the Tribune an angry letter demanding "to know immediately if the cartoonist has been approached by representatives of somebody interested in injuring the bus business. . . . Needless to say . . ." said Mr. McCabe with needless indirection, "it may be quite difficult for us to persuade [our clients] that any further advertising should be placed." To Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Free dom of the Press") McCormick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winnie on a Bus | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

There were only two ways, Mr. Ecker admitted, that Metropolitan could stop its growth-not writing any more policies, which would be "utterly destructive to the business," or not adding to its surplus, which would be "dangerous" if mortality rates suddenly rose in an epidemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Kuhn Loeb Partner Hugh Knowlton, whose company has been chaperoning Farnsworth financially for four years. The other was Harry Cooke Gushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc. Last week Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. filed with SEC a registration statement covering 600,000 shares of $1 -par-value common stock. Mr. Cushing's firm will head a syndicate to raise over $3,000,000 from sale of the stock. Farnsworth Corp. will absorb The Capehart Inc. (famed record-changing phonograph) and the manufacturing facilities of General Household Utilities Co., which include the plant at Marion, Ind. where the old Grigsby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...worse, Professor McKinsey never saw Depression II coming at all and the manufacturing division's top-heavy inventories perfectly exemplified U. S. business' 1937 sin. By year's end the manufacturing division had lost some $5,000,000, Marshall Field & Co. itself $1,654,451-and Mr. McKinsey himself was dead...

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

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