Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Each advertised huge mileage guarantees. Montgomery Ward's "Super Service Riverside" tire carries a guarantee of 30.000 miles. Sears Roebuck gives its "Super Allstate" an assured life of 25,000 miles, proclaims: "No other manufacturer has dared to write such a guarantee," declares itself "America's Largest Distributor of Tires." But Montgomery Ward counters with the slogan. "World's Biggest Tire Dealer." The tire war seemed localized to the two principal mail order houses. While the tire companies were piling up deficits, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward showed largest sales on record...
...press . . . appears to have lost very much of its power as a director of public thought. ... It ought to undertake to recapture the dominant position it formerly held as a distributor of current information and a director of public opinion...
...adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan for "more than $15,000,000" two weeks after it opened. Seating 6,200 people it has been called the "largest theatre in the world," has been entirely filled at practically every performance, to his great profit...
Milk, Mincemeat, Fruit Juice. The Borden business began in 1857 with Gail Borden's discovery of a method of condensing milk. The Borden Company is the present result. In 1927 it was the largest manufacturer of evaporated and condensed milk and the largest distributor of fluid milk and cream in the U. S. It also sold butter, eggs, malted milk, caramels. Recently it acquired ice cream factories. Added to Borden products by merger last week were dried whole milk (Klim and Parlac), dried skimmed milk (Merrell-Soule and Breadlac) mincemeat (None Such), dried orange and lemon juices-all products...
This is the third recent occasion of Wisconsin dairies merging. Previously the National Dairy Products Corp. absorbed the Luick Ice Cream Co.; and the Gridley Dairy Co. (largest milk distributor in the Milwaukee district) bought the Mansfield Ice Cream...