Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sides agreed on, so far as TIME was concerned, was that they wanted their copies of TIME. The problem of supplying the Dutch and Indonesians living in areas under Dutch administration was simple, requiring only the signing of contracts with the Netherlands East Indies government and with a commercial distributor. Although copies of TIME were already moving across the military perimeter into Indonesian territory (where they sold at $3.50 a copy), arrangements were also made for supplying Indonesian leaders (President Soekarno, his cabinet, etc.) in the interior of Java...
...within Deals. Rank thinks he can. But the main Rank operation in the U.S. is more broadly based. Rank began laying the base in 1936, when he picked up a 25% interest in the then failing Universal Films, Inc. (now merged into Universal-International), thus buying a top U.S. distributor for his movies. Since then, Rank has made deals with Universal-International and Robert R. Young's Eagle-Lion (TIME, Dec. 10, 1945) to distribute at least 19 Rank films a year in the U.S. And this week he announced plans to buy or build theaters...
Long Stems, Big Prices. Detroit's Ferry-Morse Seed Co., which claims to be the "world's largest producer and distributor" of vegetable and flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...
...some $2,000,000, it bought Castle Films, top-ranking producer-distributor of 16-and 8-mm. "packages" (film sold outright for private use). In 1946, Castle sold about one million packages-seven times as many as any competitor-and made some $800,000 doing it. The deal gave United World not only 200 film subjects but 3,300 retail outlets, mostly camera shops and department stores. To keep Castle running under its own name as a division of United World, Founder-Owner Eugene W. Castle was signed up to a long-term contract at $40,000 a year...
...Lafe Parks became a Catholic, has energetically performed good works for the St. Louis archdiocese ever since. Though no graduate, Parks raised $2,000,000 for St. Louis (Catholic) University. Last week Parks, 47, now Midwest distributor for Ercoupe planes, presented his $3,000,000 Parks Air College lock, stock & barrel to St. Louis University. Then he traded in his president's title for a $1-a-year job as dean of the university's new college of aviation...