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...impulsive.) Gone are the days when a manufacturer chose a box because it was the right size and strength, then counted on the familiarity of his product to sell it. Self-service shopping has forced packages to take on many of the functions of advertising, or of the oldtime grocer's recommendation. With increasing competition for shelf space, each package must sell itself to the wandering customer. Packaging has become a $23.5 billion industry, the sixth largest in the nation...
Jealous Title. Son of a moderately well-to-do Indianapolis grocer, Dillinger lost his mother when he was three, was brought up by his father (who disciplined him by chaining him to a delivery cart) and by a stepmother he detested. At 21 he was convicted of his first attempt at armed robbery and sent off to serve his only long stretch in prison-nine years in various Indiana prisons. Then he was paroled. In the next 13 months, he built the legend that still clings to his name...
...goes on. But his style is consistent. "Who would be more likely to join the Communist party in the United States, displaced Negro workers or consistently employed Ladies Garment Workers?" "In Boston who would be more likely to oppose the government, an Irish fireman or a German grocer...
Keating is an affable man with a snowy thatch of hair and a ruddy complexion that he cultivates relentlessly under sun and sun lamp. He was born in Lima, N.Y., in 1900, the son of a grocer. He got his bachelor's degree at the University of Rochester at 19, taught high school Latin and won a law degree at Harvard in 1923. He built a profitable practice in Rochester as a trial lawyer, and in 1946 won at his first try for public office: Congressman from New York's 40th Congressional District. As a member...
...bound to come. Trading stamps have become a way of life for so many U.S. housewives that the stamp people claim that 90% of American homes are saving up for "free" gifts. It is a rare grocer who can afford not to give out stamps with purchases. Nonetheless, Minneapolis Businessman Curtis L. Carlson was nagged by the fact that present trading-stamp plans develop "store loyalty" but do nothing for "product loyalty." Carlson, 48, who built Gold Bond into one of the nation's leading trading stamps, had just the solution: let the manufacturers give away stamps...