Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steel? Guess again. As far as Hong Kong cares, it is Gibson - which is short for the Hupp Corp.'s Gibson Refrigera tor Division of Greenville, Mich. This month Gibson has been discombobulating the city like nothing since the Japa nese invasion...
Shuttling into Kai Tak Airport, 24 chartered Pan American 707s daily un load waves of Gibson dealers and their wives who have won a "High Adventure in Hong Kong" trip by filling sales quo tas on refrigerators, washers, dryers and air conditioners. Before the month-long series of visits is over, 3,700 Gibson girls and boys will have sampled Hong Kong for four days, spent another day in Tokyo for good measure...
...Tiger Balm. More and more, U.S. firms are using free travel as a sales incentive; this year 8,000 compa nies are sending crackerjack salesmen to such faraway places as Venice (RCA) or Pago Pago (Ford). Nobody does it as grandly as Gibson. The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them. Each dealer is furnished with a 40-coupon book of tickets entitling him to everything from a pot of Oriental welcoming tea on arrival...
...that Carm had suffered chest pains the previous day. The listed beneficiary of $65,000 worth of insurance on his wife, Carl, 30 days after her death, applied for a license to marry-but not, as it turned out, Good Neighbor Marge. On Oct. 7 Coppolino wed handsome Mary Gibson, 38, whom he had met at his bridge lessons, and who was rumored to have won a $250,000 divorce settlement. Carl vacated the house next to Marge's and moved into Mary's far more elegant villa, where he continued work on a new book, Welcome...
...think we have come out of this meeting with more strength than we intended when we went into it," said Bishop Gibson. In fact, plenty of obstacles remain before Blake's ecumenical dream becomes a reality. Although the delegates in Dallas were committed to merger, many privately wondered whether their churches were willing to make the surrender of power and principle that the union will demand. "The man in the street is for church union and motherhood," said President Ben Herbster of the United Church of Christ, "but when union means giving up St. John's down there...