Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year study, the coupons will cost companies 1¼? for five (after a $9.500 initiation fee per product) and, unlike other trading plans, will be paid for only if redeemed for the traditional catalogue of goods that Gift Stars intends to offer as premiums. As an added fillip, the stamps will be coded for computers, which will be able to tell a manufacturer the buying habits of his customers down to marketing area, box sizes and flavors-with hopes that this might provide a guide to what the elusive U.S. housewife really wants...
...will introduce TV viewers to the nation's first official Christmas stamp. The stamp is meant not only to encourage all Americans to spend 4;? in postage for their avalanche of Christmas cards (rather than the still permissible 3? for unsealed envelopes), but also "to supply a colorful fillip" to the greeting business. As usual, the bureaucrats did not consider that good and original design-or even the tiniest hint that Christmas is, after all, Christ's birthday-might be a necessary ingredient, fillip-wise...
Ford's 1963 models offer transistorized ignition for heavy trucks and promise it for the Galaxie's 406 high-performance engine. Several other transistorized ignition systems are already available for the tired engines of cars already on the road, or for sports cars striving for that final fillip of efficiency...
...wiggly in a silk dress and smiling sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever...
...much-publicized Clan and invite Frank ("The Leader") Sinatra to participate? Back from Frankie came a telegram stating his price: $250,000 an hour. Piqued, David fired off an answering wire: "Presume stipulated fee is for your traditional program of intramural ring-a-ding-dinging with additional fillip of musical lyrics mounted on TelePrompTer. Please advise price for spontaneous discussion." But Sinatra emerged the victor by a cable's length: "The $250,000 fee is for my usual talent of song and dance. However, now that I understand the picture a little more clearly, I must change...