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...Nation from Maurice Wertheim in 1937 for two reasons: 1) she wanted to maintain it as a voice for leftism; 2) she hoped to make it selfsupporting. Her new plan: to transfer the magazine's ownership from The Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that she has no chance of a personal profit...
Though technically a WBBM employe, precise-voiced, middle-aged Al Steinkopf is paid by Press Association, Inc., A.P.'s money-making subsidiary (A.P. is a nonprofit cooperative), and can be yanked back to A.P. cable desk or overseas duty whenever the terms of his WBBM contract permit...
...cafeterias, kitchens, lunch stands, etc., should be under plant management and run on a nonprofit, non-loss basis. . . . Cafeterias, rolling kitchens, or lunch stands operated by concessionaires . . . [are] generally less satisfactory than man-agement-owned cafeterias." Reason: "Candies, pies, cakes and soft drinks are apt to constitute too great a proportion of their stock...
...Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped off the U. S. Immigration Service that he might have violated the law by going to Buffalo on a visitor's pass, starting a business venture. O'Hearn appealed. Insisting that the National Depository was no business venture but a "nonprofit" philanthropy, he offered to take in the U. S. Government as a partner. Latest students of the O'Hearn plan: reformers from the Attorney General's office...
Under the present arrangement, all the major studios obtain their extras through Central Casting Corporation, a nonprofit, cooperative employment agency run by the Association of Motion Picture Producers. There almost 10,000 extras are registered, known by their age, sex, length of beard, type of wardrobe. When David Selznick needs a few thousand Confederate soldiers, his casting department sends an order to Central by teletype. It is given to one of the six casters who sit in a large noisy room listening to the names of the extras broadcast over a loudspeaker as they call in for work...