Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amen Corner. In Johnson City, N.Y., cops broke up a bustling little business for Peter Sadowitz, who was caught operating an unlicensed bar in the social room of a local church...
...Mile of Merriment" Midway, they saw Terrell Jacobs' circus and Joe LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...
...Visitors. If the report is unfavorable, another Johnson worker is planted in the staff to make daily reports to Johnson. Such tactics help operators and managers to keep service at a uniform, better-than-average level; in the past they have helped most backers to get their investment back within five years. The wartime ban on pleasure driving cut heavily into their business. But this year, the chain expects to gross nearly $32 million, about 200% more than prewar...
...Johnson's ample share of this take is assured through the franchise terms which require all owners to pay him a set percentage of their take, buy all their supplies from the Howard D. Johnson Co. The company owns six ice-cream factories, four candy and jam plants, a clam bed at Ipswich, Mass. It provides the restaurants with 700 items, ranging from hot dogs to toilet tissue. The company, being privately owned (chiefly by Johnson), has never revealed its profits. With the 200 new branches, however, other restaurateurs guess that Johnson will not be far from his avowed...
They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young, Rita Johnson and Susan Hayward are respectively expert as a kept husband, his keeper and the girl who doesn't get away with him (TIME, June...