Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carpenter organized the National Chip Steak Co., set out with a trailer and a steak-making outfit to demonstrate and sell. Last week he reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began...
Last week Publisher Johnson gave a banquet for 300 businessmen at The Copley-Plaza, followed by such a promotion campaign as Boston newspaperdom has never known. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, sound trucks, radio speakers and an airplane sign-trailer all shouted the news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...
Fred Snite had arrived at Lourdes in a trailer, was greeted by pilgrims crowding around the "iron lung" and clamoring encouragement in many tongues. Thereafter pilgrims, reporters, priests, nuns watched Fred Snite eagerly, day after day, as he attended Masses. Few saw him, however, when twice he was taken from his respirator, wrapped in a towel, placed in a 7-by-3 ft. basin in a bathhouse, to which the healing waters of the grotto are piped. Each time Fred Snite lay in the icy water for half an hour (he can now breathe for an hour without mechanical...
...Alexander Kyle, 32-year-old Scot: the British Amateur Golf Championship; defeating Welshman Anthony Duncan, 2 & i, in the final; at Holyake, England. Of the five U. S. entrants-Defending Champion Charlie Yates, famed Tennist Ellsworth Vines, Connecticut Socialite Dick Chapman, "Trailer" Bill Holt of Syracuse and one Ned Phillips of Philadelphia-"Trailer" Bill Holt lasted longest (semifinal...
...Francisco Golden Gate Fair: Mrs. Philip Knight Wrigley in a $5,000 trailer; egg-bald Cinema Comedian Guy Kibbee; Collier's Editor William Ludlow Chenery; one J. J. Jeejeeboy...