Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the next three hours minority stockholders (including Manhattan Ribbon Manufacturer Arthur C. Flatto, recent No. 1 stockholding critic of Western Union) aired their views, heckled the management, demanded minority representation, applauded, jeered. When the uproar was over, tough Charlie Hardy announced the results of the annual election: the management slate had been reelected. Extent of its support: more than 60% of the 589,150 eligible shares. Oscar Cintas picked up his umbrella and walked out with Latin disdain...
From 1925 to 1936 Publisher de Graff (cousin to smart Publisher Nelson Doubleday) headed Garden City Publishing Co.'s successful Star Dollar Books, sold 15,000,000 reprints at an annual profit of around $70,000. In 1936 he went to Blue Ribbon Books (nonfiction reprints, 98? to $2.49), last year launched the successful Triangle Books (39?) for them. A top-flight book salesman who knows all the tricks of cutting cost corners, Publisher de Graff figures a profit of 1? a copy, on editions of 50,000. To the original publisher he pays royalties of 1? a copy...
Napoleon Bonaparte, who needed great soldiers, was firmly convinced that a man would walk through hell for a ribbon to wear on his chest. So French soldiers are among the most decorated fighting men in the world. Finding that Napoleon had judged human nature right, France now gives 25 kinds of civilian decorations,* medals (and lapel ribbons) for rearing big families, turning out a good beet crop, running a business-like prison, doing an average job of teaching school (about half of all French teachers have the Palmes Académiques), putting out fires, collecting taxes...
COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST- Holt ($5), Blue Ribbon...
...Japanese 1938 crop (July 1-June 30, 1939) was 12½% under that of the year before. Meanwhile in the U. S. a ribbon fad and hosiery boom boosted silk consumption 13% in the ten months ended May 1, 1939 over the same period a year earlier...