Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
Into the gilded ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week trooped 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers for their annual convention...
...advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s. The new veeps: Alberta Hays and Margot Sherman, both heads of copywriting groups; Florence Richards, an account executive, and comely Dorothy B. McCann, an executive producer in the radio-TV department and wife of McCann-Erickson's Board Chairman Harrison King McCann...
...business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead of a flood of letters demanding "more sales...
...Manhattan department store offered left-handed corkscrews, fountain pens, watches, shears and checkbooks, just in time for Christmas...