Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books in the U. S. is a good deal bigger than most people suppose. Reprints, at 39? to $2.49, total at least 10,000,000 copies a year. Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000 is added by the nonprofit-making National Home Library's "Jacket Library" (15? & 25?), Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books (5?), Whitman Publishing Co.'s 10? Woolworth items such as Snow White...
...comprehensive book published last week.* A white-fringed Yaleman of 52, Author Leavens first got interested in silver when he was teaching in Changsha, China, found that his paycheck fluctuated constantly. Today an acknowledged authority, he is employed by the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, a Colorado Springs nonprofit organization set up in 1932 by Alfred Cowles...
...privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration. New York City is crashing through with about $25,000,000, New York State with $10,000,000, but this is not a subsidy, for a large part of the money is being spent in basic improvements and reclamation of the Fair site which will...
...desk of Cleveland's No. 1 philanthropist, Dudley Stuart Blossom. Enthusiastic Mr. Blossom promptly agreed to bear all development costs up to Jan. 1. By the end of January contributions ranging from $25 to $50,000 had underwritten the Exposition for $1,100,000. Setting up a nonprofit corporation, General Manager Dickey, General Chairman Blossom and 125 trustees went into action...
...these needs has now grown Aeronautical Radio Inc., a nonprofit company supported by the airlines to administer their radio operations much as (for profit) Radio Corp. serves U. S. steamships and Marconi serves British steamships. At the head of Aeronautical Radio Inc. is an able engineering son of an able engineering father: Herbert Clark Hoover...