Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint then "with the correction of our labeling practices." But Goldfine's son, H. Maxwell Goldfine, talking to a TIME correspondent a few weeks before his father's testimony, had another version of how the hoped-for settlement was sought. He blamed Einiger Mills, Inc., a Goldfine competitor, for prompting FTC complaints. A lawyer named Lester Lazarus, continued "Mack" Goldfine, had done some of the work for Einiger. The Goldfines solved this problem by hiring Lazarus for the Goldfine legal team. The lawyer then went to work on settling the FTC complaint. Lazarus, said young Goldfine, made several...
...gifts (though rarely straight cash) to get the edge over competing brands. But most companies depend on their traveling sales representatives to wangle more space for their products. It is considered perfectly legitimate to help store managers "arrange" their shelves, even though the "arrangement" often winds up with a competitor's product buried out of sight and reach. Such sharp practices are gradually dying out because companies can work a much better deal with top management on a chainwide basis. Merchandisers argue for special space to tie in with national promotions or big ad campaigns, offer specially reduced prices...
...Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. His successor, Mortimer, was chairman of the star-studded Advertising Council from 1947 to 1950, headed the United Community Campaign fund last year. Under him, each General Foods' sales dollar has brought a pretax profit of 10? v. 7? for its chief competitor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee. Royal Gelatin, etc.), and General Foods' stock has risen from $30 in 1954 to $57 last week...
...both services, the merger made solid sense. Founded in 1907 by E. W. ("Damned Old Crank") Scripps, the bustling, colorful U.P. last year grossed $28.8 million, but its profit margins have always been as thin as newsprint. With the merger, the U.P. eliminated a pesky competitor, increased its domestic clientele by some 120 daily newspapers to a total around 950 (v. the A.P.'s 1,243), will have "available" the services of such well-read I.N.S. byliners as Bob Considine, Ruth Montgomery and Louella Parsons, who will remain on the Hearst payroll. There was no question about...
...Penn baseball team came north last weekend and gave the Crimson varsity two strong boosts in its campaign for the Eastern Intercollegiate League championship. The Crimson edged the Quakers, 8 to 7, on Friday, and the next day Penn topped Dartmouth, the varsity's strongest league competitor, by a score...