Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They did not have far to search, for television is shot through with major and minor forms of corruption. There are the phony commercials: the foam in the beer glass, which is often really soap suds; the home permanent on the pretty model, often the result of a two-hour session with a hairdresser. Last week, the FTC issued a complaint against Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. and General Motors, charging "camera trickery" on commercials, e.g., pictures were taken through open windows that were supposedly taken through clear plate glass. There is the blatant, organized sale of plugs...
...drive for bigger and better markets is moving even faster in Italy, which got its first look at U.S.-style retailing three years ago when Grand Union set up a Supermercato at an international food congress in Rome. Virtually every major Italian city has at least one supermarket-and plans for more. Two supermarkets are operating in Turin, two more in Bologna, another two in Naples. Rome alone has seven supermarkets. Last week Italy's big La Rinascente department-store chain jumped into the field, bought Rome's big Supermercato S.p.A. for a reported $750,000, and expects...
...Billion in Britain. The supermarketeers are firmly established in Britain, where self-service is already a major business. Ten years ago, there were only 500 self-service stores, doing less than $50 million annually. Today, Britain has more than 5,000 self-service stores, with a total annual gross of nearly $1 billion, and at least 90 new stores join the ranks each month. This week, Britain's fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores...
...money he raised by mortgaging his house into a million-dollar-a-year business employing 46 fulltime employees in New York, Chicago and Houston. Flight Safety provides instruction on new procedures and new aircraft to more than 800 professional pilots who fly the executive airplanes for some 200 major corporations, including Gulf Oil Corp., United States Steel Corp., American Can Co., International Harvester...
Undershaft: To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and Tsar, to Capitalist and Socialist . . . all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes.-Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara...