Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest difference between Investment News and the more conservative financial papers is in the Macfadden publication's willingness to give specific tips on specified stocks. Thus in one day's issue, there was definite bull advice on International Business Machines (headed for the 200 mark), on General Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels...
...periodicals, typified by True Stories, he has reached down into an obscure stratum of society and found more than two million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found its own public among people who read newspapers only for thrills and will gladly dispense with the news if the thrills come fast enough. And now, since the Stock Market has become of interest to the People, it is Publisher Macfadden who provides the People's Stock Market paper...
...American Federation of Musicians was trying to answer at the Federation's convention in Denver this week. An unemployment crisis, now acute, started in 1926 when Warner Bros., as licensee of Western Electric Co., introduced to Manhattan audiences the Vitaphone. In 1927, Fox Film Corp. gave its first public demonstration of Movietone. Today, approximately 2,000 theatres throughout the land have been wired for sound picture showing...
...Manhattan, 100 idle musicians, with Socialist and Federation support, last week announced a series of public concerts in the New York Coliseum. There they hope to draw a full audience of 15,000 to hear produced, not reproduced, music at prices as low as 25 cents and 50 cents...
...look ahead to know the opportunities they have and to appreciate these opportunities. ... I don't want to criticize athletics or a great many extra-curriculum duties, but I think there is a great deal of time and money wasted on these things. . . . We must get our public and private schools down to a simpler curriculum...