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...years, Chicago's International Furniture Co. and S. Karpen & Bros, have been at the top in their fields. International, which had 1950 sales of $13 million, plugs its popular-priced lines through such national outlets as Montgomery Ward & Co. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Karpen, on the other hand, has always catered to the luxury trade (1950 sales...
...Force was the first to buck the U.O.E.F. successfully. In 1949 it insisted that workers unloading cargoes for Clark Field should be paid direct, not by the capataces. This year the government dealt the U.O.E.F. its second blow. It let the pier haulage contract to Delgado Bros., who signed up Associated Workers' Union (A.W.U.) labor and began paying the workers direct...
...long fight to divorce moviemaking from exhibiting, the Justice Department won the third round of its bout with Hollywood's Big Five (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.) Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., following the lead of Paramount and RKO, last week agreed to split into two new companies. One will produce and distribute films, the other will show them. Under the consent decree, the three Warner brothers, Harry, Albert and Jack, and other members of the family will be permitted to hold stock in only one of the companies. To increase competition in certain cities, Warner also agreed that...
...discriminating shoppers, Manhattan's bustling Gimbel Bros, department store this week offered something new, and a new low, in Christmas suggestions. In a seven-column newspaper ad boasting, "No bossy but no bossy has finer manure than Gimbels," the store said: "We think it's a bright-eyed idea to give someone manure for Christmas. Tickle the earth, say we, and she'll laugh a harvest . . . We'll ship a magnificent one-ton batch of Daisy's finest to your door (or to the rear door or the barn) for $19 . . ." The store coyly cautioned...
Like many another hardheaded businessman, Abell H. Bernstein was hard driven by his own restless energy. The stocky president of Bernstein Bros. Pipe & Machinery Co. of Pueblo, Colo, thought nothing of working 18 or 20 hours a day, seemed never to tire. But then he began to suffer from dizzy spells and shortness of breath. Specialists told him that he had coronary artery disease, advised him to quit work and take things easy...