Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period in 1956, and the industry saw only a small problem in cleaning out 1957 cars before the 1958 models come out. The extent of a year-end rise in the boom depends largely on whether the public takes to the 1958 models, and if it can get the credit to buy them (see below...
...CREDIT SELLING will be tried next year for first time by J. C. Penney Co., biggest U.S. chain of junior department stores (1956 sales: $1.3 billion) and last major holdout for cash-on-the-barrelhead. It will try installment plan in several stores, use Penney credit in all 1,690 stores if test lures more customers and brings in more money than it costs...
...Ontario, Calif., gassed up for its flight to Honolulu, a Trans-ocean Airlines Super-Constellation stayed earthbound when its pilot mislaid the right credit card for $1,135.58 worth of fuel, took off on schedule after Passenger Bill Hendrie whipped out his own credit card, grandly signed...
...jack, more powerful than any before, snapped up the patent rights and brainstormed the idea of a mobile drilling platform for oilmen. Until then, the only offshore drilling was from permanent rigs that cost $1,500.000 to build, another $750,000 to dismantle. Gambling his own funds, and credit, De Long built a $250,000 prototype that was simple, seaworthy, and ready to operate soon after the tow-lines were cast off. Huge jacks lowered four sturdy caissons to the ocean floor, then lifted the entire platform into the air. After capping a well, the platform descends and moves...
...Cooperative Association: clerks and salesgirls were elected to the store's board of directors, were sole arbiters of the store hours and holidays. The employee-directors did not work out. But other benefits took firm hold: an employee restaurant, a clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were pioneered by the Filenes. Said Lincoln: "Every release of the worker to more use of his mind, every addition to his skill, means steadily better wages. Society can well afford...