Word: productive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...response to a question as to what steps a young author should take to acquire style, Mr. Wilder said. "Style is a by-product of personality, and in my opinion nothing can harm the notation of one's personality, which is style, so much as the technical study of organization, paragraphing, periodic sentences, and specific details. The technical side of style should be learned almost unconsciously on the tide of one's tremendous nourishing enthusiasm for certain authors of one's own choice
...second main division of business may be covered under the general heading of distribution. This would include selling, in its broadest sense, and advertising. We may define it as "getting rid of the goods". Most products go through the hands of several salesmen, first perhaps the wholesaler, then the jobber, then the retailer. In the automobile business they go through that part of the organization which has to do with the supervision of agencies, then through the agency itself, and from the salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials...
...likely, however, that Mr. Kendall and his associates are interested primarily in the moral effect of their crusade. As far as immediate profits are concerned testimonial campaigns have been almost universally successful. They are an obvious and easy solution to the problem of what-to-say-about-a-product. Yet should a pronounced sentiment against testimonials develop, originators of advertising ideas may pay more attention to What's What and less attention...
Hotelman Bowman, a product of Toronto, got his first job in a Yonkers haberdashery. After hotel-clerking for some time in the South and the Adirondacks he went to work in Durland's Riding Academy, Manhattan. When Durland's passed a rule that the riding masters had to wear uniforms, John Bowman rebelled, resigned, set up his own small academy. He had few horses and little cash but the venture was prosperous enough when he left it to take charge of wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore...
...Ralph Jonas, is connected with Manufacturers Trust Co., presided over by Nathan Jonas; and Manufacturers Trust, through a recent merger (TIME, Dec. 31), is Manhattan's fifth largest trust company, with $531,000,000 resources. The Jonas brothers also have holdings in. Home Insurance Co., another large product of recent merging...