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...problem. How to sell the product against the ice-jam of cinema block-booking was another. Should TIME hand The March of Time over to one of the big distributing systems? Contrary to orthodox advice, TIME decided to take a chance on doing its own distributing through an "independent" distributor, First Division Exchanges, Inc. Vice President David L. Loew of Loew's Inc. broke the ice by being the first to contract for The March of Time for his chain. Other potent chains-Balaban & Katz, Poli-New England, Fox West Coast-followed suit, taking the monthly March of Time...
...Deal, Studebaker's longtime President Albert Russel Erskine shot himself to death in his South Bend home. Active direction of the company had already passed to the two vice presidents, Paul Gray Hoffman, an able salesmanager who first made a fortune for himself as a distributor in California, and Harold S. Vance, in charge of production. With Ashton Bean of White, they formed a triumvirate of receivers who never let their organization slip an inch...
...Just as the automobile drove the less convenient horse and buggy off the street, as the steamship out-sailed the sailing ship, as the printed book displaced the handwritten manu script, so will radio outdo the slower, more expensive and cumbersome newspaper, as a distributor of news...
...Light & Power Co. (New York), later a superintendent for Montreal's Royal Electric Co. He became master of Columbia Gas in 1912, when it was a West Virginia utility, helped merge it with Ohio Fuel Corp. systems in 1926 to form the present Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., biggest distributor of natural...
...make a case of whiskey (three gallons). Barreling, bottling, labeling and aging add about $6. The present Federal tax of $1.10 (which will probably be upped) a gallon adds $3.30. To this total production cost of $10.80 a case must be added the mark-up of middleman and distributor. For some time to come the retail price of reasonably good whiskey will be around $30 a case. Testifying in Washington last week, distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe that in a few years even...