Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid...
From the only man who ever bought a business* from five Jews and sold it to seven Scotchmen at a profit, this was a dire prophecy. Yet the pert, imaginative magnifico-who cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and in 1909 impudently invaded London...
>Ice companies began replacing old ice wagons with enameled delivery trucks, streamlined and enclosed. Instead of open collar and rubber backsheet, icemen began to wear natty uniforms and bow ties; to use instead of ice tongs drip-proof canvas carriers; to wipe up water when they accidentally spilled it on...
Significance. All this merchandising effort was not in vain. The adverse trend up to 1935 was definitely checked. This year's ice sales are estimated at 9% above 1935's. But the effort that checked the trend has not reversed it. In 1926 some 1,500,000 iceboxes...
Two years ago it found one: neat, elm-shaded Flemington (pop.: 2,700), site of the notorious Hauptmann trial. With a consistent assessment policy, a tax rate that seldom fluctuated, little debt, conservative little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny...