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...announced that a booklet called The New York Stock Exchange, Its Functions and Operations would be sent free upon request. In the New York Times and Herald Tribune the Exchange got preferred positions on the second or third pages along with the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Knox Hats, Reuben's and the Brass Rail restaurants...
...from a lake 233 miles away. The main channels of the Los Angeles sewers measure 50 miles in length. To inspect them, to see that they were free of corrosion and cracks, has been the job for the past 16 years of a husky, ruddy, straw-haired athlete named Reuben Brown, 45, assistant superintendent of sewer maintenance. Mr. Brown enjoys his inspections, has in the course of them made many an odd find of money, jewelry and glass eyes...
...Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...
...Golds, on the market in 1926, it floated a $15,060,000 bond issue solely to finance promotion. Camel advertising costs R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. some $10,000,000 annually. But during Depression, two oldtime tobacco men discovered another and a cheaper method of selling cigarets. They were Reuben Morris ("Rube") Ellis, long time president of Philip Morris & Co. and Leonard Burnham ("Mac") McKitterick. Their cigaret was Philip Morris English Blend, which is now crowding Old Gold for fourth place in the roster of fastest selling U. S. brands. Their company was Philip Morris & Co. which, before they...
...Some members of a prospective For-Landon-Before-Cleveland club: Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller: onetime Ambassador to Mexico J. Reuben Clark Jr.; Penman Walter A. Schaeffer; Saltman Sterling Morton; Princeton Professor William Starr Meyers; Publisher Eugene Meyer; Railroader Ralph Budd; Motorman Charles W. Nash: President Michael Joseph O'Brien of Chicago's Stock Exchange...