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Adolph Oettinger Goodwin, 42, Baptist, is a onetime newsman (Raleigh, N. C. Times), onetime adman (Critchfield & Co., William H. Rankin Co., MacManus, Inc.). With $250,000 capital he formed Goodwin Corp. His scheme is to build up a consumer market hy getting church people to sell products on commission. The church-going salesladies get 2% "remuneration"' which they "may" turn over to their church-a technicality to sidestep restraint-of-trade statistics. Wrappers or sales slips establish proof of sale. The manufacturer whose product is thus sold agrees to spend at least 3% of the additional volume of sales...
...Hallets Cove Garden Homes, Inc. for 31 apartment houses on the Queens bank of New York's East River; $4,460,000 to the Community Plan Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to replace 750 slum buildings with 200 new houses; $168,000 to a Raleigh corporation to build apartments convenient to the faculty and students of North Carolina State College. In all cases the new apartments were to rent for $11 per room per month or less...
...Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury (Standard Oil of California...
Commonest belief as to their origin: the descendants of Barbary ponies brought to the Colonies by Sir Walter Raleigh...
John Sprunt Hill, Durham banker and industrialist, is one of North Carolina's richest citizens. He is also a State Senator. One day last fortnight grey-haired John Sprunt Hill rose from his desk in the Senate chamber at Raleigh, hunched his venerable shoulders and sang out loud & clear: "Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee...