Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
With the eat-'em-ups and the slash-'em-ups proving by good grosses that there is plenty of room at the bottom (said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience...
...risen from 7% of sales in 1951 to around 14% (v. an average 33% for department stores). Korvette and other big discounters have the cash reserves they need to grow, but their smaller brothers do not. Traditionally, the discounters' main credit source has been manufacturers' wholesale distributors, who "carried" discounters through periodic slow periods. Even if the discounter failed, the distributor could rationalize his own loss as advertising for the products. The sagging appliance market has tightened that credit source just when shoestring discounters need it most. For small operators, vainly trying to wrap packages, and make deliveries...
...Trans-Canada will bring. Vancouver Oilman Ralph K. Farris, son of a Liberal Senator and founder of the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly policed the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co., and waitresses and farm hands all got a share of profits that now total $45.9 million...
...subsidiaries manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans). But the team raised only enough to buy 60,000 shares. Last week, for the second time in seven weeks, ailing U.S. Hoffman got a new transfusion. The donor : Harold Roth, president of Continental Industries, Inc., a vending-machine manufacturer and distributor...