Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sign King Leigh's real success dates from the day he got exclusive U. S. rights for 17 years on a moving picture-type of outdoor sign invented by Kurt Rosen berg of Austria-the electric animated cartoon. Although he has now eight ani mated "spectaculars" (as the trade calls them), on Broadway, his Old Gold display is by far the most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs...
...candid cameraddict, Douglas Leigh used to tramp along Broadway taking pictures of possible sign locations. Then he would concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year...
...bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 bond issue last month (TIME, June 13). Whereas Big Steel's big issue was to finance plans laid some time ago, Standard's will be spent largely on plant expansion planned since Depression...
...that farmer? around Hershey, Pa. ejected Hershey Chocolate Corp. sit-downers last year (TIME, April 19, 1937), the Wisconsin farmers were concerned lest the creamery pay less for their milk if it had to pay more for labor. They forced seven union employes to quit, ordered 15 others to sign a pledge: "I hereby agree not to join any organization bordering on or pertaining to labor unions." Vexed, NLRB's Wisconsin Regional Director Nathaniel S. Clark vowed he would not be "buffaloed by a bunch of farmers," rooted out a Wagner Act section which makes interference with NLRB...
...Solférino, to start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help of Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments to sign agreements guaranteeing respect for the wounded, neutralizing military hospitals, protecting the material and personnel of medical services. Also agreed upon was the use of a white flag bearing a red cross* as the international symbol of sanctuary...