Word: bumpers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Pillsbury Co. cut wholesale prices on a broad range of biscuits and other products by 10%. In addition, farm-commodity prices have been dropping for months. Many experts, looking forward to a bumper crop this fall, expect the trend to continue. Since October, corn has slid from $4.03 to $2.84 per bu., wheat from $5.45 to $3.61 and sugar, which was trading at a horrific 64? per lb. in November, to 28? on commodity markets. Choice beef has been declining. But increasingly tight supplies will probably force it up by 10? or 12? per lb. at retail levels...
...There is no way we can lose," Mrs. Sullivan declares optimistically. "How can they talk about bicycles and medicine cabinets and pins being dangerous, and not bullets?" She has some strong support. Free of charge, the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency is preparing a public relations blitz. Television spots, bumper stickers and posters feature the slogan YOU NEED A BULLET
Last year it was food prices. This year soaring electricity bills could be the main focus of consumer outrage. In Maryland, where the Potomac Electric Power Co. is seeking a 22% residential rate increase, bumper stickers proclaim FIGHT THE HIKE, and customers are underpaying bills in protest. To battle a 23% increase proposed by the Virginia Electric & Power Co., local governments are raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten...
Schuller's accommodations for the suburban middle class and its cars keep his shopping center full. At the various Sunday services, a total of 2,200 children attend classes in the Tower, 4,400 adults pack the glass-walled sanctuary and another 1,600 sit outside bumper to bumper, listening in on car radios. Undoubtedly, many are tourists drawn by such attractions as the twelve fountains (one for each apostle), the crown of thorns plant, and the "still waters" reflecting ponds...
Around Philadelphia, Parent enjoys the perquisites that go with being a superstar. Industrial Valley Bank pays him generously to advertise: "Bernie Saves . . . at I.V.B.," and a popular local bumper sticker declares: ONLY THE LORD SAVES MORE THAN BERNIE PARENT. Bernie receives so much fan mail he has been forced to hire a secretary. Despite all the attention, he prefers quiet evenings at home with the family. "I've been trying to get Bernie to take me to a country and western show for years," says Carol. "He hates to get dressed up to go out any place...