Word: distributors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldest network on the Coast, Don Lee Broadcasting System has four major stations (KHJ, Los Angeles; KFRC, San Francisco; KGB, San Diego; KDB, Santa Barbara), just became associated with six smaller ones. The late Don Lee, a successful automobile distributor, bought his first station in 1926, founded the chain in 1928. The system began television experimenting in 1931, now televises nightly over W6XAO, once a week with synchronized sound from KHJ. President of Don Lee Broadcasting System since his father died in 1934 has been Thomas Stewart Lee, 30, a favorite in Hollywood cinema circles and a shrewd manager...
...price for the old stock. For the oddest theme in the RKO story is that while its finances went from bad to worse, its position in the cinema industry showed astonishing improvement. In booming 1929, RKO was hardly more than a promotion. Today it is a first-flight producer, distributor and exhibitor and showed a profit of $1,446,000 for the first 39 weeks...
...plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...
...arbitrary milk "sheds" or inspection areas notwithstanding. Farmers, whose milk always went to a creamery, cheese factory or condensery, now fight for the urban outlets. Dealer-controlled farmer groups, such as Dairymen's League help the farmer cut his own throat, make a united front impossible. The city distributor buys from 50 to 100% more milk than he can sell as such, juggles it among various classifications, does his own weighing and testing, returns to the farmer, in effect, what he pleases...
...York dairymen staged a milk strike in 1933. Following it, the State passed laws regulating wholesale and retail prices of milk, made it a criminal offense for a distributor to buy or a retailer to sell milk below prices set by the Agricultural Commissioner. Under these regulations wholesale milk prices varied according to the use the milk was put to. Drinking milk was in one class, brought $2.45 per cwt.* Milk to be made into ice cream, butter, cheese brought from $1.20 to $1.90. On the average, after deductions for freight and handling many a farmer netted only about...