Word: duns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survey by Dun & Bradstreet, top economists for U.S. corporations agreed that a further decline in overall business can be expected during the early months of 1961, with a recovery in the year's second half. About one-third thought the economy would get its main stimulus from Government spending. V. Stevens Hastings, Chase Manhattan Bank economist, looked ahead and liked what he saw: "The fact that the 1958 to mid-1960 upswing was less than normal does not affect the outlook for the '60s. The next upswing is just as likely to be greater than normal...
Cuties & Cold Cuts. The vogue was started by Burt Browne, 55, president of Burton Browne Advertising ($5,000,000 a year in billings, mostly in electronics accounts), who declares he is "the only saloonkeeper in the country listed in Who's Who, the Social Register and Dun & Bradstreet." In 1941, needing a place to entertain the "advertising manager from Seattle after feeding him a steak and three martinis," Browne converted a small office adjoining his agency into the Sundown Room, equipped it with a bar and attractive barmaid. Soon the Sundown Room became such a popular gathering place...
...cases triteness successfully holds out against insight. But they all build on the constants in human experience. In Success Story, for instance, an ancient fellow approaches a park bench. "Then he turned himself carefully round; bringing into the spring sunlight, pale as a primrose, his dun face, hollow-cheeked and dry; the great orbits of his sunk eyes; the long nose fallen at the tip; his white mustache, of thin separate hairs like glass threads . . . A string of muscle jerked in the shadow of the cheekbone." His success is twofold. In the first place a child of three takes...
BEST-RUN COMPANIES in the U.S. were picked by panel of 171 company presidents for Dun's Review. First five in order: E. I. du Pont, General Electric, General Motors, International Business Machines, and the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing...
RETAIL PRICES will hold firm in fourth quarter, say 84% of 375 retailing executives in Dun's Review survey. But 40% of them are optimistic about an increase in profits...