Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...separate action resulting from the Adams case. Britain's biggest newsstand distributor, W. H. Smith & Son. announced that henceforth it will 1) screen all foreign newspapers and magazines for material that seems to violate the libel and contempt laws, and 2) handle no publications that do not have a British representative who can be held responsible in the event of court judgments. In addition, Smith's asked foreign publishers to indemnify them against fines and other expenses levied on them as a result of material in publications distributed by them...
Away As At Home. Smith's ultimatum was prompted by a contempt case in which it was fined $140 for distributing an issue of Newsweek containing a story that was held prejudicial to Dr. Adams' case. While punishing the distributor, the court did not punish Newsweek, ruled that Newsweek's London bureau chief, Eldon W. Griffiths, was not responsible.' since he testified that he had cabled nothing on the Adams trial and that the offending account had been written in New York from newspaper clippings...
...other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan distributor claims to have 5,000 orders already...
...three companies peddling arthritis and rheumatism palliatives: Buffalo's Mentholatum Co., maker of Mentholatum Rub; Manhattan's Whitehall Pharmacal Co., maker of Infra-Rub and Heet; and Jersey City's Omega Chemical Co., distributor of Omega...
...ultimate responsibility for the press rests with the newspaper and magazine owners. "They have the power not only of the press but of the SUP-press," says Churchill. As if by magic, rumpled, rambling Critic Churchill got additional ammunition to back the charge. Britain's biggest newsstand distributor, which is loudly denounced in Churchill's book, has refused to handle it, on grounds that it might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London daily from the Times to the tabloids, but most refused to reply or to review it. In one of the few magazine comments...