Word: discardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wear this in Nova Scotia or you can wear it in Atlanta when the temperature is 107 degrees." Schwartz and his Cornell-educated son Richard, 24, Jonathan Logan's executive vice president, now show new lines in Dallas or Minneapolis before they show in New York, discard models that go over poorly outside Manhattan...
...struggling Stonehaven Hotel in Springfield, Mass. Impressed with the swiftness with which the Stonehaven's earnings responded to rigorous management, they bought more hotels and formed Sheraton Corp. (named after one of their first hotels, which had a costly electric sign that they did not want to discard...
...past nine months alone, Korvette's profits have risen 81% to $4,268,000, and the company's sales in fiscal 1962 will amount to $230 million. All this Ferkauf has accomplished by pursuing a business philosophy that is as old as the Industrial Revolution: discard costly frills, use low prices to lure customers, and make up for low profit margins with high volume. Familiar as this philosophy is (and a lot of people are working at it), it takes acumen to practice. By succeeding at it in the sluggish 1960s, Eugene Ferkauf has seized the lead...
...Page Morton, 32. But dear Jean persisted, and the New York State Supreme Court finally had to tell her that three's a crowd, even in 28 rooms. She might have had better luck with the place's previous owner: Tommy Manville, who is now trying to discard wife...
What Finney and you and I don't realize about our television-drugged parents is that by now they have acquired some sort of life-view, and they have pocketed it, like some foreign coin saved from a trip abroad--too interesting to discard and fun to show off, but not of much use any more...