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Looking back over the record of our coverage of Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U., I was interested to find that TIME'S first mention of them occurred two decades ago. Those two decades cover all but six years of the span of TIME itself. In its Aug. 19, 1929 issue youthful TIME took note of David Dubinsky for the first time. He was then acting president of I.L.G.W.U. The story gave an account of his efforts to raise a $250,000 bond issue to finance a strike of 45,000 Manhattan dressmakers. From that time on, as Dubinsky...
...episode pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...
There was no doubt that RCA was taking a licking. In Detroit, Grinnell Bros. Music House (with 30 branches) estimated that Columbia's LP records were outselling RCA's 30 to 1. Chicago's leading record dealer, Hudson-Ross, said that the RCA 45 "just hasn't caught on." In other cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have...
Despite the setback, RCA would not admit defeat. This week it announced a $1,000,000 ad campaign to plug its 455. At the same time, RCA will cut the price of its record-player attachment from $24.95 to $12.95. But RCA is a little late. Three months ago Columbia brought out an LP player attachment...
Last week, under able President William J. Murray Jr., McKesson passed a milestone. Announcing that sales for the year ending June 30 were a record $356.6 million, with a net $8,766,345, the company declared the first special dividend (25?) in its 116-year history...