Word: chock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Department stores have found that giving a buyer the additional supervision over selling and facilitating functions, as well as over buying, sales events, and profit accounting, has tended to increase sales. With minute records of day-to-day sales acting as chock-ups, the buyer can no longer shift blame onto the management department for poor sales of his specialty...
...Getting money for divinity, geography, a theatre, or a hockey rink sounds a lot easier than it is," he says." When it comes time for actually writing out a chock people can find a lot of excuses...
Surprise Package. Northern Pacific proved itself chock full of other surprises. At week's end, Ohio Match Co., in the sleepy town of Wadsworth, Ohio (pop. 7,943), let'out a well-kept secret. Its annual report disclosed that it owns 167,500 shares of Northern Pacific, the biggest single block. If this did not give Ohio Match working control of the railroad, it at least gave it the biggest single voice in its management. Unlike other investors, Ohio Match had not been buying Nipper for its oil lands; it was buying it for its timber lands...
...libraries were chock full," Eddy said...
Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...