Word: appareled
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...ceremony was as stark as the apparel. Dropping a stick before the cou ple, the pastor pronounced the legal essentials in mod vernacular: "You're married, as long...
Sales climbed in all 22 industries covered by the 500. Apparel beat out office machines for first place with a 20.5% increase; the slowest mover was the shipbuilding and railroad-equipment group, up 6.3%. In spite of attacks on its pricing structure, the drug industry for the fifth" year in a row was the most profitable, with a 17.9% return on invested capital...
...rates were suddenly included in the figure for home ownership costs. Prices for used cars, which swung downward temporarily last year, rebounded sharply to their former levels. Food rose by 0.4% and clothing by 0.6%. Higher prices did not deter shoppers from buying spring fashions; March sales in the apparel industry rose 14% above their level of a year earlier...
...successful became known only last week. Issuing the first public financial report in its 119-year history, the behemoth of blue jeans announced that it earned $12.1 million in 1968 on sales of $196.8 million. That record makes it one of the nation's half-dozen biggest apparel manufacturers...
...hospital rooms. Housewives complained about $1.99-a-lb. sirloin, and the President-elect of the U.S. yearned to find a good 50? hamburger. Price increases were so pervasive that not a single component of the Government's price index declined. Transportation rose 4.2%, food 4.5%, apparel 6.6%, medical care 7.2%. By Washington's official reckoning, which probably understates the cost of living in many large cities, it now takes $122 to buy goods and services that a decade ago cost...