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Word: showroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phoenix last fortnight, two automobile salesmen were lounging in their showroom when a mannerly young man walked in, asked for a demonstration. All three went out in a car. They were not heard from again. From descriptions given them, police guessed that young Burgunder was one of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Model | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...pocket, was hitchhiking south to one of the dozen baseball schools that have sprung up in the last five years. Baseball schools (geared to precede spring training) charge from $40 to $75 tuition for four-to six-week courses, make no guarantees to place graduates, serve as a showroom for talent as well as a classroom for instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Lessons | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Batchelder, onetime Harvard football and hockey star. The Institute built its own television equipment, uses a 9 in. by 12 in.-screen English receiver manufactured by Baird Television Ltd. Originally intended for student demonstrations the equipment drew so many curious visitors to the school's converted automobile showroom that M. I. T. President Porter Henderson Evans last week arranged regularly scheduled evening performances, obtained a Boston theatre license, charged admission (adults, 25?, children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Practice | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Holding no television broadcasting license. Educator-Entrepreneur Evans carries his pictures from M. I. T.'s second-story studio to its street-level showroom by wire. Amateur talent on the first show included Boston's Mayor Maurice Joseph Tobin. Professional performers will be hired only if the box office take is large enough to pay salaries. President Evans does not expect his theatre to survive Boston's first curiosity to see television pictures. Said he: "I've always practiced the reduction of ideas to practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Practice | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...lieve, masterful Scots at lonely fur-trading posts. In the modern business sense they are a cross between financing companies and service organizations, having evolved in the U. S. from the oldtime commission merchants. James Talcott, Inc. will make market studies, find selling agents, provide storage and showroom facilities, handle the clerical detail of foreign or domestic shipments. It does not, as the commission merchant used to do, actually sell the manufacturer's goods. Like all factors, James Talcott is primarily concerned with cash and credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Factors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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