Word: duns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Priorities. San Francisco's pro Forty-Niners and the Stanford and University of California football squads got their shots; so did clerks in the local Dun & Bradstreet office and stenographers of the Retail Credit Co. City employees in the police, fire, water, and transportation departments got none. Almost identical reports came from a dozen other cities, including Washington. The District of Columbia had received only 3,000 shots for workers in the capital's essential services; some Federal Government workers were vaccinated without regard to essential status...
Students wishing to join must pay the club a sum which about covers the cost of checking his and his parents' credit rating with Dun and Bradstreet. This precaution is for the benefit of participating merchants, since the club directors themselves feel that "any kid going to Harvard is all right," treasurer David T. Schwartz '59 said...
...keynote address, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C. stated the theme of the conference: "The real question is not whether the long-divided Christian family should be reunited but the nature of the unity God wills...
...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 and give credit to today's tougher customer, the added cost often spells ruin. Says Dun & Bradstreet: "You can't sell at 5% above cost and give the services people want." For those who can expand, the potential market was never bigger. Says Sol Polk, Chicago's top discount merchandiser: "The greatest sport in the next five years will be stretching the American dollar...
...spate of good earnings reports so far in 1957 has made U.S. businessmen optimistic about the rest of the year. In a survey of 1,432 executives released last week by Dun & Bradstreet, more than 90% foresaw fourth-quarter sales either matching or exceeding last year's, and 89% predicted that net profits in the fourth quarter will also equal or top 1956's last quarter...