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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores within the next year. Weston, who controls Loblaw's Groceterias (228 stores) in Canada, and National Tea Co. (917 stores) in the U.S., is also training his super sights on Germany, where scores of new markets have opened this year in the heavily industrialized areas of the Rhine and Ruhr...
Jewelry stores, particularly Manhattan's staid old Tiffany & Co., are not exactly noted for their sense of humor. But last week Tiffany thought it was time for a gentle chuckle and a quiet spoof on those for-the-man-who-has-everything presents. Into the Wall Street Journal went a straight-faced Tiffany ad illustrating a golf putter with a head of 14-karat gold. Price: $1,475. At the bottom of the ad, in the best Wall Street tradition, Tiffany added a line similar to those that appear on security-offering notices: "This advertisement appears for the record...
Tiffany knew not what it had wrought. Its "entire stock" was one presentation putter, ordered by the partners of Parker & Co., a Manhattan aviation-insurance firm, to celebrate Managing Partner R. Leslie Cizek's 30th anniversary with the company. No sooner did the ad appear than Wall Streeters started burning up the phone clamoring for their very own gold putters. With a sigh, Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving announced that the store had ordered more of the $1,475 clubs for the men who want everything. And that it also had a less expensive model in base metals, with...
...American Airlines Captain Don Tillett bought the Sitton Septic Tank Co. of Chicago for $35,000 four years ago, increased the gross to almost $130,000 last year...
...year business employing 46 fulltime employees in New York, Chicago and Houston. Flight Safety provides instruction on new procedures and new aircraft to more than 800 professional pilots who fly the executive airplanes for some 200 major corporations, including Gulf Oil Corp., United States Steel Corp., American Can Co., International Harvester Co...