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Five Lowell House residents reported the seven cars parked on Soldiers Field Road to the University switchboard operator 20 minutes before the fire, and taking their license numbers, turned them over to the police. They also removed the distributor-heads from...
Long String. The American News Co., a distributor of newspapers and magazines, as well as of food on railroads and in bus and airport terminals, got ready to pay its sooth consecutive bimonthly dividend -25?. Since its founding in 1864, it has not missed a dividend...
...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...
...three months and traveled 15,000 miles by air, dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook...
...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...