Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago-a well-worn reminder that he loves the town in which he has so large a proprietary interest. (The trouble with New York, says the Colonel, is that it has a bigshot complex.) Belatedly the Tribune started a campaign to get more defense work for Chicago. To offset the Field paper's $10,000 name contest the Tribune ran a half-dozen contests-$10,500 for a new U.S. operetta, $10,000 for easy answers to a State-capital contest, $5 to $25 for best recipes, book reviews, horoscopes...
...fancy prices for imported symphonic scores have gone down as much as 50%. Hampton Publications, Inc., a new Manhattan firm, last week had a rush of orders. Hampton had put on the market its first batch of scores, European editions which had simply been photographed and printed by photo-offset...
...German publishers may still not be entirely out of the running. Last week one of their Manhattan agents, Associated Music Publishers, rushed out a new score, a photo-offset reprint of a Breitkopf & Härtel edition (Mozart's Magic Flute overture), selling for $8.50 and labeled "the only authorized American reprint." A.M.P. vowed to beat Hampton prices all along the line, at a loss if necessary...
Even so, Am Ex wants to start service. For one thing any incoming cash will help offset the huge obsolescence on its four-engined boats. More important, by flying the route, Am Ex can win its wings, thus dissolve the opposition's argument that only Pan Am is experienced...
...oilmen spoke of higher prices with partly crossed fingers. Leon Henderson has warned them to keep the lid on. When four north Texas producers last week posted prices 7? a bbl. higher (ostensibly to offset a differential with Oklahoma-Kansas prices), Leon stopped warning, "invited" the price lifters to Washington for a showdown...