Word: purveyors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hollywood liked the seamless bowls so much that Paddock, pool-purveyor to cinemoguls since 1922, hired Ilsley as a consultant. When Pascal Paddock, company president, decided to sell in 1939, Ilsley bought him out for a mere $17,000. During the war, Ilsley built pools and water tanks for the Army & Navy, thus was ready to dive back into private pools at war's end. Now he produces about one custom-made pool a day (average cost: about $10,000), paid himself $41,000 last year in salary and bonuses. The company netted $59,730. With the People...
With "assurances" being given by the University that an alternative method of financing would be supplied in place of the old "purveyor" lists of advertisers, plans this week went ahead for publication of the '47-'48 Album and the '51 Register...
Last week's "assurances" were given after the Council had cancelled the Red Book and suspended the Album, as a result of the newly-formed University policy of witholding the purveyor lists from class publications...
Although there has, in past years, been small reason for such fears, the University might resolve its doubts in two ways: (1)by requiring that purveyor lists be checked through the purchasing office to insure that advertising solicitations be kept within reasonable and ethical limits and (2)by notifying -possibly at the Album's expense-all purveyors that as far as purchasing is concerned the University takes no cognizance whatsoever of any advertising in any Class publication...
Whatever course it takes, it is to the University's self-interest to see that Class Albums do not cease to fulfill their traditional function. And at the very least the University should refrain from making the problems of publication any more difficult. Withholding purveyor lists at this time is something like stepping on the fingers of a man hanging over a cliff-he may hang on, but his chances of salvation are not increased...