Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...
...their partnership had become so profitable that they incorporated themselves as The Culbertsons, Inc. Out of The Culbertsons, Inc. come salaries of $2,000 a month apiece, living expenses which last year totaled $107,000. Into The Culbertsons, Inc. go towering profits from a number of sources. Publishers do not like to have their authors hear that Mr. Culbertson gets a royalty of about 33% on his books-of which about 200,000 copies are sold every year. Bridge rules, happily, keep changing. Daily bridge advice from Mr. Culbertson is printed in 110 newspapers, from Mrs. Culbertson in 56. That...
...office as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools, in the eyes of good government agitators there were two strikes against him. He was Board of Education President James B. McCahey's man, and between McCahey and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly there was too close a partnership to suit watchdogs of Chicago's schools. Board Member Mrs. William S. Hefferan had quoted ten civic leaders: "The precipitous appointment of Dr. Johnson is opposed to leading educational opinion...
With deputy sheriffs for Dr. Senise trying to attach Mr. Roach's bank account he gloomed: "I can't say if a picture will ever be made under my partnership with Mussolini, but the partnership has not been dissolved." By this time Son Vittorio was en route by sleeper-plane to Washington, obviously aware that a Fascist has about as much chance to succeed in Hollywood as a Zionist producer would enjoy in Mecca...
...back to Hollywood. . . ." Thus Editor Maurice Kann of Manhattan's Motion Picture Daily recorded his version of what Hollywood's Hal Roach excitedly called up by transcontinental telephone to say last week, after both Jewish and Gentile cinema folk had criticized Producer Roach's partnership with Son Vittorio Mussolini (TIME...