Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overriding all is what Hall wryly calls his "ten-point program'' for sales success: the first nine points are distribution. To get his cards into the stores and keep them there, he set up a sales system that replaced the helter-skelter collection of boxes under the counter with a long display rack that put the selection out in the open. Hallmark sells the display racks to retailers at cost, also assumes responsibility for keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards...
...first seven days of Michigan's deer season, 30 hunters died-four from gunshot, five by asphyxiation (gas heaters) and 21 from heart attacks...
Menzies strengthened the powers of arbitration courts, also worked hard for better working conditions and labor-management relations. Result: Australia is now enjoying its quietest industrial relations in 24 years with only 185,000 working days lost from strikes in the first six months...
Actually, De Beers turned out the first synthetic diamonds in 1958, but it kept this a secret while it hustled to get a jump on G.E. on patents. It filed provisional patent applications all over the world, including the U.S. where G.E. had no patent. The Defense Department had placed a secrecy ban on the G.E. process, only lifted it last September. The ban prevented G.E. from receiving a final patent that would have made their process a matter of public record...
Born. To Air Force Lieut. General William E. Hall, 52, Commanding General, Continental Air Command, and Marguerite ("Maggie") Higgins Hall, 39, Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune: a second child, first daughter; in Washington. Name: Linda Marguerite. Weight...