Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From a national standpoint, everyone is purchasing display items a lot earlier and asking for earlier deliveries," reports Merle Hayward, an executive of the Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., the U.S.'s largest Christmas-and general-display firm, and a 1966 study by the National Retail Merchants comes to the same conclusion. By last week all five major Manhattan department stores had their holiday toylands open for trade, and their Christmas boutiques were stuffed with wrappings, gifts, cards and decorations. Such cities as Portland, Ore., may still wait until the day after Thanksgiving to trim their streets, but Elmsford...
...younger people who want something a little spicier than sugar. Indeed, Hi Brows sometimes hang over the brink of bad taste. "For your birthday," reads one, "just a refreshing wish . . . may your cesspool never clog." For graduation, American Greetings has a suitable Hi Brow: "Your jaw is firm, your gaze is steady, your mind is alert, your head is high . . . your fly is open." Anyone who is tired of traditional Christmas cards can pick up a Hi Brow: "You may be getting a big surprise in your stocking this year. Santa gets airsick...
...Threat of Piracy. Branching out in new directions, Maxwell this year bought Britain's largest typesetting firm, the famed London bookshop of John and Edward Bumpus, and a subscription-book subsidiary of Press Lord Cecil King's International Publishing Corp...
Despite the French government's general policy of discouraging foreign -particularly U.S.-investment in France, three American firms are also participating. The wholly owned French subsidiary of Collins Tuttle & Co. of New York, a leading developer of high-rise commercial structures, is managing the financing of the $100 million tower. The Chicago architectural firm of A. Epstein and Sons, and Diesel Construction Co. of New York-a primary contractor in the Pan Am Building-are acting as consultants...
Farm Bureau Federation formed to pool farmers' purchasing power and made it one of the U.S.'s biggest farm coops, in 1926 founded a mutual auto-insurance firm that became Nationwide Insurance Companies (3,000,000 policyholders, $760 million assets), then after World War II took the idea of little people helping little people to CARE, ot which he was the first president; of pneumonia; in Columbus...