Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From strike-racked Paris last week, Republican Foreign Policy Expert John Foster Dulles directed an urgent hint toward Washington. Communist efforts to wreck Europe's economy, he said, would convince Congress more than ever of Europe's desperate need for help. His hint was sharpened almost daily by new reports of Communist violence, sabotage, street battles and wrecked trains. But Dulles' congressional colleagues did not seem to hear. Congress was bogged down in dawdling and delay...
Atlanta's Davison-Paxon store sent its customers dollar bills and asked that they be awarded to courteous clerks. In Seattle, Frederick & Nelson kept a company spy prowling the aisles. His job: giving orchids to polite salesgirls. The help, apparently a little stunned by such thoughtful practices, was positively charming...
...consideration of the qualifications necessary for class committee members; that an invalidation of the entire slate, and a fresh approach without prejudice to any individuals on the current list, would climinate all unrest, but would be impractical; and that a revision in the present plan for tabulating ballots would help to establish a competent permanent committee for the Class...
...figured that the competition would help Broadway-Crenshaw get customers. His plan included a 10½-acre parking lot and an underground tunnel that keeps delivery trucks out of the way of customers' cars. A Los Angeles housewife who drives out to buy at Woolworth's or Owl is just as likely to drop into the Broadway store before she starts home...
...Help Yourself. Ed Carter has always been customer-minded. As a part-time department store salesman while working his way through U.C.L.A., he outsold his full-time colleagues, saved enough to go to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. There in his first year he copped top honors and a scholarship. He went to work for the May Co. and was making $50,000 a year as merchandising manager when he decided to join Broadway. The chief bait: a share in the profits and a stock option deal that may make him (if he succeeds in his promise...