Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws are forcing people to the ragged edge of ethics. Stiff taxes have created an atmosphere in which everyone quite openly wants to skirt around the laws legally, and they don't spend too much time with the moral considerations.'' One appliance company bought a distributor company, then gave its franchise to a company set up by one of its top executives. It tacitly agreed to buy his stock back when it had risen, thanks to business from the parent company, thus enabling the executive to take his salary in capital gains...
...moon. Hotpoint was so eager to unload that it had set up carnival-like displays around the nation, was giving away cokes, ice cream and balloons to kids who brought their mothers to the fair (next week, the kids can trade their mothers for space helmets). Whirlpool has cut distributor prices 6% on some refrigerator models. General Electric has stripped trim off other models to sell them as cheaper "economy specials." The industry was hustling as quickly as it could to move its oversupply of goods...
...only does the lie-detector test benefit the boss, but it is also a boon to the employee, says Devine. When a frozen-food distributor called in Devine to find out who was pilfering $1,000 worth of food each month, the losses stopped immediately. Result: management gave raises, boosted starting pay $10 a week. In another case when $42 in cash disappeared from a service station, the three attendants voluntarily asked Devine for a lie-detector test. Devine said they were honest, sent them back to the job. A few days later a customer returned the money, saying...
...quiet, Quaker suburb of Whittier. Some of her colleagues foresaw trouble for the pretty young newcomer. One was Helene Colesie, another young teacher who became Pat Nixon's oldest and closest friend (and who later married one of Dick Nixon's closest friends, Los Angeles Magazine Distributor Jack Drown). Says Helene Drown: "You take a woman as young and beautiful as Pat Ryan was then, and put her in with a faculty of older women, and you've got almost certain trouble. Except that with Pat it didn't work out that way. All the older...
...Baths. At a respectful distance hovered the champion's owners, Charles Venable, an Atlanta vending-machine distributor, and his blonde wife Christine. They bought the English-bred dog for a reported $8,500 three years ago and have scarcely seen him since; few owners who aspire to blue ribbons have the time or skill to handle their own dogs. Clara Alford, a half-Cherokee professional handler from Catoosa, Okla., put Gossie on the strict regimen of a Peke show dog, e.g., no romping with other dogs or children (he might damage an eye), no baths (his hair might...