Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLOR-TV SALES are doing so well after slow start that RCA will bring out five new models, expand its line to 16. RCA says sales are 200% over last year, but mass market is still far from being tapped...
...face lifting, put in modern truck ramps, insisted to cattlemen that Chicago, not Omaha, was cow butcher to the world. For gourmets who patronized the yard's Sirloin Room he added a touch: they could pick and brand their own steaks before broiling. To expand the Prince estate income, he went into industrial research. One Prince project has developed a safe, cheap method of liquefying and shipping methane gas, which Continental Oil Co., in a joint venture, hopes to market in a year in areas that have no natural...
...like the Government's consumer price index, on a 1947-49 base of 100), soared to 143.2 in April, a hike of 6.5% over last year. With interest rates at 5% v. 2% six years ago, the lines must pay much more for the money they need to expand and modernize...
...wasteful secrecy in merchandising, Lincoln Filene in 1916 persuaded major U.S. stores to open up their books for the benefit of all, went on to help form Associated Merchandising Corp. for cooperative bulk buying from Europe and Asia (now more than $1.5 billion a year). Lincoln wanted to expand Filene's nationwide by merging with other stores; Edward was stubbornly against it, and eventually dropped out of the company's active management...
...boards dominated by outside directors, and the percentage is growing. Partly, the shift is due to widening public ownership of U.S. business. As companies grow bigger and more competitive, the day of the tightly held family corporation is fast disappearing. Says Cleveland Management Consultant Robert Heller: "As companies expand, they have to go into the market for money and then must bring in outside directors to represent the public...