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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRED C. COLE American Type Founders Elizabeth...
Sirs: The following will correct the impression given by your article pp. 54 and 56, TIME, July 6, that Grocer Saunders of Memphis was the first in the "Self Serve" type of grocery. The fact is that Lutey Bros., Grocers, Butte, Mont., originated and operated under this plan from February 1912. This was four years before the advent of the Saunders Stores. Mr. Saunders adopted this idea very successfully, after learning about its results with Lutey Bros., Butte. This innovation in grocery retailing by Lutey Bros, was commented upon by trade journals- The American Grocer, New York, devoted several pages...
...most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
From these basic principles the Lino type has never varied, though the original machine now has 75,000 descendants setting type in more than 70 languages in 86 countries. Linotypes sold slowly at first. Original users were the Tribune, Louisville Courier-Journal, Chicago News and Inter-Ocean, Washington Post, Providence Journal. In 1891 Mergenthaler Linotype Co. was formed with Philip Tell Dodge, Washington patent attorney, as its first president. Heading the present 18-acre Brooklyn plant of Mergenthaler and its affiliates - London's Linotype and Machinery, Ltd. and Berlin's Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik - are able President Joseph...
...Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters, and occasionally his slapstick is effective. On the whole, however, though readers could not have asked for a louder burlesque, they could have wished for a funnier...