Word: sale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many CBS sales executives are no longer in favor of any summer holidays for any sponsors. But President William Samuel Paley was once a sponsor himself, became interested in radio when he used it to boost sales of the La Palina cigars his father manufactured. In 1928 he bought himself CBS, built up its station membership until he now controls some 1,600 air hours a day. He sells a goodly slice of these 1,600 hours, but has by no means all for sale. Deductions must be made for: 1) Time differences across the continent. 2) Time given...
...Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...
From 26 daily newspapers in 1927, the Scripps-Howard chain today is down to 21. Sale of the Akron Times-Press means the dissolution of the third link in the Scripps-Howard chain in recent months. Six weeks ago, the ailing Buffalo Times was turned over to a local group headed by Editor George Lyon and Business Manager Earl L. Gaines. Month ago, the Toledo News-Bee, because of "greatly increased production costs," suspended publication, left the Toledo field to Paul Block's powerful evening Blade and unimportant morning Times...
...prototype of all man-eating managing editors by Playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in The Front Page. Lately on Hearst's executive staff, Howey had supervised the tabloid New York Mirror and the Boston Record. There are now 54 tabloids, of varying degrees of importance, on sale daily...
...file with SEC or awaiting issuance are four sizable issues proposed for sale in September: Youngstown Sheet & Tube, $30,000,000; Phillips Petroleum, $25,000,000; Atlantic Refining Co., $25,000,000; Gulf States Utilities $10,000,000. Only about half of these four borrowings are for working capital-hence industrial companies, if not utilities, are floating loans for new money. Another plain fact is that generally only top-notch companies thus far have tried to raise money and they have offered mostly senior issues. Many economists hold that there can be no noteworthy recovery in the capital market until...