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...Door. A hot-air curtain that takes the place of a door has been installed at a Kroger Co. supermarket in Cincinnati by St. Louis' American Air Curtain Corp...
...wall of air keeps warm air in the store, the cold outside; the system can be converted to cold air in summer. Kroger's 11-ft.-wide air curtain cost $7,500, will cost about 15? an hour to operate...
...Sportsman's Park, selling newspapers and score cards. He quit school at twelve, drove a team of horses for a local grocer for $4 a week and, at 21, failed at running his own grocery. In 1917 he took a job in a St. Louis store of the Kroger chain, eventually became chief trouble-shooter for the whole chain (3,174 stores). He quit to join National Tea because Kroger rejected his ideas for extensive reorganization on the grounds that the company was already doing well. Says McNamara: "Hell, the time to make changes is when you are doing...
...soup kettles for Campbell Soup at 38? an hour, helped build a power plant for the company before he left three years later. He put in two years as an engineer for the Wilson meatpacking company, worked with the Government on war contracts, became a vice president for the Kroger Co. in 1942. Hired by Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., in two years he doubled sales to $52 million and boosted the stock value 400%. Bunker now votes about 230,000 shares of Martin, enough for control. Does he plan to move on and cure some other ailing company...
...First six: A & P, Safeway, Kroger, American Stores, First National', National...