Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner in gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain reports that it sold only nine cans of sauerkraut a week at a dime apiece, but 441 cans priced at ten cans for $1. A West Coast petfood packer sells more three-can packages priced at 29? than three individual cans priced at 9? apiece...
...find a capitalist to build a hotel, put up the pattern-setting Caribe Hilton with its own $5,000,000, brought U.S. Hotelman Conrad Hilton in to run it. Hilton made $1,000,000 the first year, was encouraged to go ahead with what is now his worldwide chain...
Tract & Polemic. People's Daily, largest and most widely circulated journal ever published in China, is edited by shy, chain-smoking Wu Leng-hsi. who reportedly lost an eye fighting during the civil war. Wu is also director of the government's Hsinhua News Agency ("the ear and mouth of the Party. Government and People"), which is closely allied to People's Daily, has 31 bureaus in China and 23 overseas, e.g.. Geneva. London, Paris...
...Chain store sales last month rose sharply, were 5.1% better than 1957. Total sales for 44 big chains so far this year: $6.7 billion, 3.7% higher than last year...
...Robert C. Kirkwood, 53, executive vice president since 1955 of F. W. Woolworth Co., largest U.S. variety-store chain (2,121 stores in the U.S., Canada and Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture...