Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skimping in a lot of little ways-buying cheaper meats, turning out unneeded lights, doling out quarters instead of dollars to their five children-Steelworker Frank Sekula, 41, and his wife Betty have managed to stretch their savings far enough to meet their necessary outlays without piling up any new debts. Betty Sekula, veteran of many strikes, has only a faint trace of bitterness in her voice when she says: "I don't think that either side in this strike is thinking of the betterment of the men. I don't see where we're going...
...ignored the wartime barbs, figuring that any publicity was good publicity. Last week Chairman Horace Harold Corey sought to correct history. The chewy, watery product that wartime G.I.s damned as Spam was really a lower-grade concoction, made under Army specifications: no ham (Spam itself has 6%-8%), cheaper cuts of pork, longer cooking of meat in the tin so that ersatz Spam could withstand tropical heat or Arctic cold. Naturally, the product had a certain unforgettable stick-to-the-ribs quality that provided a unique gastronomical experience. But it should not have been confused with real Spam. To prove...
...reduce oil use by setting up an oil cartel. Under the cartel, which Erhard also admitted was one of his little sins, major oil companies last December were pressured by Bonn to fix prices at $22 per metric ton (about $3 per bbl.) and not to advertise. But cheaper oil flooded in from neighboring nations and Iron Curtain lands. Small, noncartel companies cut oil prices as low as $15 per ton, tripled their market share to 25%. Last week giant Esso A.G., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), alarmed because its share of the market had dropped from...
...MILLION BET on success of Detroit's small cars was placed by Hertz Corp., which is buying 4,500 of Big Three's new models as a starter for its car rental service, will charge cheaper rates than for normal-sized cars...
...pros easily ease through plant security by using the most hackneyed ruses: posing as rubbernecking stockholders or newsmen, bribing disloyal employees, even hiring on as employees themselves. When a ranking executive journeys overseas on business, the private eyes often follow to check on what he is looking for. (A cheaper source of supply? New machines? New customers?) And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether he dickers with a rival distributor for a better deal...