Word: hotpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop making them too, and Whirlpool Corp., after only four years of European operation, has sold plant and Pontiac brand name to French companies. British manufacturers have decided to do as the Romans do: Hoover's English subsidiary markets Zanussi-made refrigerators under a Hoover label, and British Hotpoint lets Zoppas make its washers...
Since Christmas, Hotpoint has laid off 500 refrigerator-production workers in Chicago. General Electric shut down its television-manufacturing lines at Syracuse for this week, idling 4,400. At Westinghouse's Metuchen, N.J., color TV plant, 600 employees have been laid off since December; the company's Columbus, Ohio, appliance plant has cut back from three shifts to one. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that the nationwide sag in retail sales persisted in January, while its index of overall industrial production fell by a full point to 157.9% of its 1957-59 average. Factory orders...
...referring to debit and credit ledgers. Among U.S. companies, books have become so popular as sales tools that last year this category outstripped all other come-on devices except toys. More than 150 U.S. corporations-including Chrysler, Black & Decker, Weyerhaeuser, Phillips Petroleum, Carnation and G.E.'s Hotpoint Division-use books in sales campaigns. Last week the Aluminum Co. of America launched one of the biggest book campaigns yet. For 500 and an Alcoa coupon, it will send out a 310-page paperback called Mealtime Magic Cookbook, which contains hundreds of recipes for indoor and outdoor cooking-many specifying Alcoa...
Nine years ago Mary Tyler Moore was nothing, or more precisely, she was a two-inch pixy dancing in a Hotpoint stove ad. Then she got a job answering the phone for Richard Diamond, private eye. No one who saw her in the part will ever forget her, though he could not possibly remember her face. As sultry-voiced Sam, she was never seen above the thigh. And that shortskirted gam bit got her an audition for the part of Danny Thomas' daughter. She missed, but when Producer Thomas was looking for a wife for Van Dyke the next...
Realistically, Bloom concedes that he has already cornered about as much of the British washer market as he is apt to get. ("The two leaders-British Hoover and Hotpoint-have so much capital behind them that we couldn't move much farther.") In his new heater specialty, however, he faces virtually no effective competition. And some time in the future he plans to bring out a $118 dishwasher. "But the British aren't ready for this yet," he cautions. "It's too modern...