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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business. Last week's developments: 1) Schulte and United Cigar stores offered 15? cigarets at two packs for a quarter-but no more coupons. Cartons of ten packages, $1.20. 2) The Atlantic & Pacific and the Liggett stores (whose longstanding price cutting on cigarets is chiefly responsible for the present troubles) met the United and Schulte cut by announcing (in New York) that they would sell two 15? packages for 23?. Cartons of ten packages, $1.15. Last month President David A. Schulte of Schulte Retail Stores Corp., announced that he was going to do some price cutting that was price...
Railman Frank Taplin, 55, began his industrial career 42 years ago, started in as office boy for no less famed an employer than John D. Rockefeller Sr. (The present "Taplin interests" include a vague but potent backing from the Rockefeller family, whereas the Van Sweringens are more directly indebted to the House of Morgan.) Mr. Taplin's father was manager of the refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal...
...Alleghany Corp. was formed in the present year (TIME, Feb. n) as holding company for Van Sweringen railroad stocks. Its initial offering ($35,000,000 in 5% convertible bonds) was marketed through J. P. Morgan & Co., National City Co., First National Bank, Guaranty Co., Alleghany Corp. Last month announced an issue of $25,000,000 in cumulative preferred, series A, with rights to purchase 1 1/2 shares of common at $30 a share for each share of preferred...
...childhood form, catch it from others when they grow up. Three good means of diagnosis for early tuberculosis exist: X-rays; tuberculin tests; precipitation of a suspect's blood serum by fatty phosphatide fractions of the tuberculosis germ.* Mild doses of infection immunize a person. Massive doses present great future dangers. Attempts to vaccinate babies with living cultures of the germs are likely to prove harmful, because it has been impossible to free such vaccines from virulent, deadly germs...
...music is to be a feature of theatrical production the patronizing public has a right to insist that the human interpreter shall be present to exercise his traditional and time honored function. . . . The pro posed mechanization is a backward step in the amusement, entertainment and educational world. It means the destruction of the inspirational glamor which has long surrounded the theatre orchestra...