Word: productions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then smart entrepreneurs started building refineries in the tropics, shipping the finished product instead. The tariff on raw and refined was approximately the same, while labor and taxes were lower than in the U. S. By 1934 these tropical refiners were supplying nearly one-tenth of the 6,000,000-odd tons oi sugar annually consumed...
...been received. It now remains for Cambridge to hear it in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening and to add its own judgment. The Concerto aroused considerable comment abroad, partly because of its romantic origin and partly as a result of the controversial nature of the work itself which is a product of a leading light in the Schonbergian school. Also on the program are Mozart's Symphony in A major (K. No. 2 01) and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scherazade...
...really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night and a diner in which all food was exclusively the quick-frozen U. S. product of Heiress Davies' company. Though they did take into Russia 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of quick-frozen cream (TIME, Dec. 28), Ambassador Davies deprecates press references to the well-publicized Davies commissary. Says he: "The exaggerations give both Mrs. Davies and me a big laugh...
Short, rotund, always cheerful, "Eric" Erickson, son of a Swedish engineer, was a product of the Brooklyn public schools. His first important job came at 24 as advertising manager for James McCutcheon Co. Two years later, in 1902, he formed his own agency and McCutcheon was his first account. It stayed with him all his life. He made the friendship of William Hamlin Childs, a power in Barrett Co. (Tarvia, roofing, chemicals), and that big Allied Chemical subsidiary became his first major account. Liking his advice, Barrett Co. invited him to become a board member, first of the series...
...Barrett product that was not prospering was called "Congo." Somebody had the bright idea of painting the material and using it for floor covering. Erickson was enthusiastic but unable to persuade his fellow board members to boom Congo with advertising. They suggested that if he believed it was so good, he should buy the company. That he did, and the renamed product, Congoleum, was Erickson's first big killing. In 1924 he merged his company with Nairn Co. (cork, linoleums...