Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan ("The Beard") Kent and Austen Herbert ("Ginger") Johnson sold a singing commercial to Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. Scheduled for a late August debut, it is the latest product of a partnership that has made them kings of jingle. It is scored for 23 brass instruments, a Hammond organ and a male voice. The miniature cantata runs for one minute. Excerpts...
...sweet tunes which he called "Organized Seduction." In 1935 he sailed to the U.S. to do a program for NBC. He was not much impressed with Alan Kent, who had been recommended to him as an announcer, but a later meeting and a drink led to their partnership...
...brothers controlled some 37 theaters in St. Louis, had branched out to Indianapolis and Kansas City. They sold out to Warner Brothers, who hired Spyros as general manager at a reported salary of $3,500 weekly. Shortly before the Warner chain felt the depression, Spyros went into partnership with Paramount (salary: $156,000 a year). As boss of its Fox Metropolitan Theaters in Manhattan, he turned a $1,000,000 annual loss into a $200,000 profit. From there he went to manage Wesco Corp., the holding company for all Fox theaters. Gradually Wesco expanded, changed its name to National...
...year. By the age of 20, he was a star salesman, and had left the firm when he was refused a raise to $15 a week. He went into the real-estate business with a friend. Terms: Day put in no capital, but was to get a partnership if he doubled the business in two weeks. He made the gamble good; two years later he was doing nine-tenths of the business, and had pulled out to start his own office...
...commonly raised in objecting to the Government's participation in the Arabian scene is used chiefly to cover a lack of clear thinking which the proposal merits. No one has been foolish enough to charge the British Government with being 'Fascist' because of its 30-year partnership in Iranian...