Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"There are worse things than a strike. Everybody gets a lot of things off their chests. They say a lot of dirty things and they seem to feel awfully good after it is all over and they are back to work.
Typical of the mushrooming new industry is Tennessee's Boot-ster Manufacturing Co. It puts out a plastic spatlike gadget that fits over a boy's shoe, thus "makes any shoe a cowboy boot." J. Z. Miller, part owner of two small department stores, got the idea for...
Faced with the Labor government's plan to take over the sugar industry, Great Britain's biggest sugar company, Tate & Lyle, decided to fight back. On the 2,000,000 cartons of sugar it sells daily, Tate &. Lyle printed: "Keep S Out of State"; "Tate, Not State"; "Untouched...
The trouble, said K-F, had been high-cost inventories, high overhead, price cuts, and a strike at Bendix Aviation Corp. which had stopped K-F production for two weeks. But K-F's real trouble was that the auto shortage was about over, and its share of the...
Last week Langs confessed: "I don't know anything about merchandising. It will take a big outfit to market this properly." If the right company answered the ad, Langs said he might turn over the gadget and just take a royalty.