Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Packages move; Gelco bought a courier service that in fiscal 1979 did $65 million in business and, helped by mass marketing and computerized control, may top $95 million next year. People move; Grossman is building a service by which corporate travel will be handled by a central reservation and billing service. He also watches over that wondrous American institution: the expense account. Companies can require that salesmen and others on the expense account submit their claims to Gelco's computers, which check them for any excesses...
...memo suggests that Ford might increase profits by loading well-selling models like the subcompact Fiesta and Courier minitruck with expensive options that customers would be forced to accept, and putting on less costly tires. Ford is also attacking internal costs by cutting executive business travel by 50% and symbolically dropping free coffee at company business events and eliminating all magazine subscriptions...
...this year's disaster-movie sweepstakes, the film to beat is The Concorde -Airport '79. That hilarious-some might say seminal-extravaganza boasted such passengers as Susan Blakely as an investigative reporter, Cicely Tyson as a heart-transplant courier and Andrea Marcovicci as a Soviet Olympic gymnast...
Security measures were tight. Kissinger's corrected galleys were hand-carried to New York from the publisher, Little, Brown, in Boston, and stored in a vault at the Chase Manhattan Bank. They were brought by courier to Kriss, who had a 24-in. safe installed in his office for the occasion. Later, he regretted having turned down an 84-in. model when the excerpt drafts and numerous revisions began to bury the office furniture. Photocopying the work, a project that overheated several office machines, had to be done on weekends, when witnesses were scarce. "At home," Kriss adds...
Rising to the crisis, local radio and television stations broadcast the blacked-out Doonesbury. New York Senator Daniel P. Moynihan had the strips telexed to his office every morning from the Buffalo Courier-Express. The Star promised to run all three weeks' worth on June 25. Meanwhile, the White House added Doonesbury to the President's daily news summary. Vowed Press Secretary Jody Powell: "As soon as the Department of Energy and the Department of Justice get through looking for rip-offs by the oil industry, we are going to let them look for Doonesbury...