Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members stuck at having a WPA artist fill a space meant for Whistler or Sargent. "If any member," said Mr. Stokes, "thinks that Edward Laning is a long-haired Bolshevik, he should get a look at him." Edward Laning is neat, solemn; at 32 he looks less like a Bolshevik than a college senior. The sketches he submitted for four panels on The History of Bookmaking (Mr. Stokes suggested the subject), impressed the board last week and finally succeeded in bringing it around completely...
...water burst against the yacht's bow, workmen knocked away the keel blocks, loosed the hawsers, and the Q. E. D. started down the ways. But before more than a few feet of her hull had entered the water, she came to a dead stop. Her stern was stuck in gooey Harlem mud, there to list forlornly until the next high tide floated her up, long past midnight...
Alfred Lyon thereupon became a "missionary" at $15 a week, began to learn cigaret selling in the Ellis-McKitterick manner. Through the years and many a complicated corporate change the three stuck together. In 1931 Ellis and McKitterick emerged with working control of an inconspicuous 12-year-old firm named Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc., with annual sales of about $3,000,000. Last week Rube and Mac were not alive to see it, but Philip Morris was the No. 1 success story of a depression year. It had increased its sales 45%, its profits from...
...year, including the cost of an automobile and other perquisites furnished him. And with an advertising expenditure vastly smaller than its competitors Philip Morris has for five years had the fastest growth of them all. This, Milton Biow lays to the fact that Philip Morris has stuck to one theme and one slogan without switching from one idea to another every few months as do many others. At any rate Philip Morris spent only $908,497 for advertising (exclusive of radio talent) in 1937 as compared with $8,500,000 for Camel, $8,900,000 for Chesterfield...
...guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout was Ambassador Kennedy, who stuck to his long trousers...