Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles H. Percy, already making his young man's mark at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras, optical equipment), went on duty in the Navy's purchasing offices, found that the torpedo sight his company was mass-producing for the Navy was useless. His blunt honesty in forcing fast cancellation of the contract so awed company officers that they later made him its president...
Club members everywhere were aghast last week when one Jack Bender of Chicago, practicing with real bullets in his Buntline Special model, accidentally shot and killed his 14-month-old son (whom he had named Wyatt Earp). They quickly pointed out that he was not affiliated with any club. Cried Dillon: "Anyone using live ammunition is like a drunken driver. He is simply asking for trouble...
After one of the slowest starts in years, Christmas retail sales last week finished a surprising 4% ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that...
Pickets paraded around the Chicago headquarters of the A.F.L.-C.I.O Air Line Pilots Association last week carrying placards: "Thanks for the Merry Christmas, A.L.P.A." "You've Got $28,000 Now. What More Do You Want?" "A.L.P.A., the Company-Busting Union." The pickets were American Airlines reservations agents protesting the strike by 1,500 pilots of American, the nation's biggest line and the sixth one immobilized by labor strife...
Over the past ten years, air freight, parcel post, bus and truck lines have cut into the Railway Express business. (To pick up 100 Ibs. of furniture in New York City and deliver it in Chicago via Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...