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...Hoover Scripps-Howard chain-papers, which had already disowned the Hoover position on water power, pointed editorially to Senator Norris and exclaimed: "There...
Last week, he sold out to Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 13 newspapers, third largest chain in the U. S. It was Publisher Gannett's third important buy of the year. The first, The Hartford Times (TIME, Feb. 6), cost him $5,000,000. Last June (TIME, June 18) he bought the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Price: $3,500,000. The Knickerbocker Press and Albany Evening News bring his year's investments well above $10,000,000. Publisher Gannett's newspapers are known as "clean," "wholesome" and "non-partisan...
Department Stores. At New Orleans, Birmingham, Memphis and Louisville are City Stores Co. department stores; at Newark and Elizabeth, N. J., are stores affiliated with City Stores. That chain last week paid $10,521,000 for control of Lit Bros., Philadelphia department store...
Bulk-buying makes possible penny-clipped selling. Provident housewives cherish pennies. Therefore chain grocery stores attract housewives. Two such chains were welded last week...
...Tuesday the good news came. From Chicago, President George B. Everitt† wrote stockholders. Interesting was the promise that Jan. 1 would see 200 chain stores in operation. But transcend ent for traders was the common stock increase from 1,285,000 to 6,000,000 shares, giving stockholders the right to buy two new shares, at $17.50 each, for every share now held...