Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selfish goals of individuals into larger, more social and spiritual objectives for the group . . . Conflicts are resolved by relating the immediate to the long-range and more enduring values." Faced with this assignment of relating his product to his God, many a chewing gum manufacturer, comic-book publisher, movie distributor or banker might well fall to his knees. But, says Ohmann, this would all be to the good...
...fellow-traveling Director Hideo Sekigawa, produced by the then Communist-run Japanese Teachers Union, and acted by dozens of A-bomb survivors who offered their services free, Hiroshima originally contained so many gruesome horrors and so anti-American a line that Japan's Education Ministry protested. No reputable distributor would agree to handle it, and the left-wing company that finally took it over has since gone bankrupt...
Bill of Particulars. In Chicago, suing for breach of contract, a food distributor charged that the Flamm Pickle and Packing Co. shipped pickles that blew up jars in warehouse refrigerators, on retail shelves and purchasing agents' desks, and moreover, were "less than perfect in taste, smell and coloring...
...gentleman across the table, a candy distributor, offered us a chlorophyll mint. He received dirty looks from everyone. "Naw," said one. "The kid wants a cigarette." Everybody agreed. We had a cigarette...
DEALER RESTRICTIONS, by which companies prevent distributors from unloading surplus stocks outside their geographic areas, are in for a rough time from the Justice Department. Government lawyers have filed an antitrust suit against Philco for a clause in its contracts that gives the parent company the right to buy up (at cost) and sell back to the distributor any product that he sells outside his area or to an unauthorized dealer. Justice's charge: the clause eliminates competition, boycotts nonfranchised stores...