Word: dime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work out customers' problems. If none of the 50,000 sample forms in Standard's files suit a customer's needs, the company's staff of 36 designers will create a new one. To show customers how their problems can be solved before spending a dime on equipment. Standard has set up a complete display of paperwork and data-processing systems in its Dayton headquarters. This free "simplification service," says Spayd, has saved a single customer as much as $750,000 a year in typing costs alone...
...hand and antiquarian books. Brick catacombs, piled high with dusty volumes including occasional lost rarities, are ranked along the walls of the basement. The windows of the shop are cluttered with newspaper clippings, engravings, pamphlets, and books "which made Cornhill famous." In front of the shop are stacks of dime "bargains" and on the floors and several thousand feet of shelves inside are heaped books and articles of virtually every conceivable category...
...Fools' Day, negotiators from the eleven biggest U.S. steel companies and the Steelworkers Union hammered out what appears to be their most moderate labor agreement of the postwar era. The two-year contract agreed upon at Pittsburgh last week will raise labor costs per steelworker by a dime an hour during its first year-all of it in fringes rather than wages. But at the end of the first year, the Steelworkers will be free to reopen negotiations and drive once again for higher pay and benefits...
Into the ranks of the discounters last week moved 1) another major dime store group, 2) the world's largest drugstore chain, and 3) the world's largest food store chain. Items: > The W. T. Grant Co. will try to stem a sales slide at two stores-in Jersey City and in Milford. Conn.-by turning them into discount houses...
...fight for the heavyweight championship since Jack ("Li'l Arthur") Johnson, the first of the great Negro champions and a man whose full-blown arrogance inspired fans to cry for "a great white hope." Semiliterate, surly and suspicious, Liston starts telephone conversations with "It's your dime, start talking," ends them without warning, on a grunt and a click. Brazen and tough, he has been arrested 19 times since 1950, convicted twice (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), spent a total of three years in prison. His underworld connections are notorious: he worked as a head-knocking labor...