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...itself, premium promotion still has an unfailing appeal to the something-for-nothing instinct- though some companies make a tidy profit on their premiums by requesting cash along with wrappers, box tops, coupons and other evidences of consuming interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past two years from...
Athletic contests between colleges, although usually presumed to be conducted on the most sportsmanlike of terms, are, nevertheless, notorious for the emotional tension, often resulting in outright bad feelings. In view of that fact, it is very encouraging when two colleges, such as Harvard and Princeton, manage to settle their difficulties in an entirely amicable manner...
...First help of this kind was offered by a delegation of mayors, headed by New York's LaGuardia, who marched in to say that they did not want to borrow any of the President's relief money but did want a large share of it as an outright gift because most of the unemployed live in cities...
...Canada alone his private railroad car often rolled up 80,000 miles per year. Shy, reserved, profoundly democratic, he expanded the Crane organization into almost every section of the earth where bathtubs are used, pushed Crane's assets above $100,000,000. During his life he gave outright to his older employes more than $12,500,000 of his personal stock, and when he died in 1931 left them another...
Holding companies in themselves are the most effective and economical means of combination. Over outright merger or consolidation, they have the advantage that they can be backed out of if the proposed combination is unsatisfactory. They form a complete concentration of the management and control of an industry without the increasing inefficiencies of large scale business. They are a useful instrument. It is poor logic to abolish them as a whole because some men have abused them in the past...