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...when Adolph Ochs bought it] the New York Times' daily circulation, which in 1883 was 70,000, had dropped to 9,000. The regular employes numbered 300, and the annual gross income was $500,000. At the present time the New York Times has an average daily circulation of 370,000 and 625,000 on Sundays, has over 3,000 regular employes, and an annual gross income...
...plan for making it pay, Mr. Warfield listened with interest. He turned the investment over to Mr. Loew. Profits began to come in. Soon Mr. Warfield, convinced of the financial genius of his new friend, induced Mr. Loew to invest in a theatrical venture. The other partners were Adolph Zukor (now head of Famous Players) and the late Mitchell Mark. The venture was a penny arcade. Marcus Loew has turned that penny arcade into 350 theatres. "A Loew House in Every Town," his employes proudly proclaim - and the boast is true, or very nearly. Every evening, as twilight blows westward...
Died. Sir Adolph Tuck, 72, originator of Christmas cards and picture postcards; at London...
...dinky little white-haired man trotted into the stockholders' meeting of the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. last week in Manhattan, slapped many a friend on the back, invited one and sundry to come and visit him at his country estate out-side of Manhattan. He was Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players-Lasky...
Died. John Diedrich Spreckels, 72, after week of illness; at Coronado, Calif. He was the eldest son of the late Claus Spreckles, who expanded his Philadelphia grocery business to control much of the U. S. sugar trade. The sons?John Diedrich, Adolph Barnard (died 1924), Claus August (president, Federal Sugar Refining Co.) and Rudolph (spells his name "Spreckles," onetime fighter of California political corruption)?all went into the sugar business. John Diedrich. went furthest, developed the Pacific islands sugar trade, pioneered transpacific shipping to carry his products, broadened into finance, philanthropic and civic activities...