Word: kist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Approach Washington Street eager with anticipation. An historic first in the making. Shoppers seem unconcerned. Images of smiling Jim Dooley riding the Sun-Kist trains of the Orange Line arise. Dismissed as unlikely. But who knows what it's really like down there in Forest Hills, anyway...
Much more serious, devaluation may speed the rise in U.S. food prices by shifting more of the output of American farms into export markets, leaving an inadequate supply to satisfy growing domestic demand. Says David W. Brooks, chairman of Gold Kist, a farm cooperative in Atlanta: "American farmers exported nearly $10 billion in 1972, and the total may go to $11 billion or $ 12 billion this year...
...flash of Manhattan. "Ideas don't know where they are born," he said. His own ideas were based on keen appraisals of consumer wants and were often disarmingly wrapped in homilies. His agency created the Pillsbury Doughboy, as well as the Marlboro Man, the Jolly Green Giant, Star-Kist's Charlie the Tuna, Maytag's dependability campaigns, and the slogans "You're in good hands with Allstate," "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer," and "Fly the friendly skies of United...
...made his mark after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna and Ore-Ida, a processor of frozen foods that takes its name from the fact that its first processing plants were in Idaho...
...local paper in an important provincial Hungarian city, Pecs, showed that there was considerable political apathy among the students in Pecs University. Attitudes of mistrust, cynicism, and even hostility to politics were found. Similar apolitical attitudes appeared in one of the surveys conducted by the Hungarian youth organization (KIST). In responding to the question of how they used their free time, students indicated that they preferred literature and the arts, young workers preferred television, sports, and dancing, and peasant youth occupied themselves with cards, bowling, and sessions at the village inn. There was no significant spontaneous devotion of free time...