Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked him, pointing to a portrait on the wall. "My grandfather," answered His Grace, the loth Duke of Marlborough, beaming amiably above his Glen plaid jacket...
Super Lesson. The big new stores will plug such hot-selling items as frozen foods and meats ready-packaged in Cellophane; they will be supermarkets in everything but name. Safeway doesn't like the term "supermarket"; it reminds the company of a bad mistake it made in the '30s. At that time, Safeway stuck stubbornly to the idea that supermarkets made housewives travel too far, that they preferred small neighborhood stores. While Safeway stuck to its small stores, A. & P. and other chains totted up their biggest business ever with supermarkets. Now Safeway hopes to make...
While most big manufacturers wondered what to do, Proctor Electric Co., whose toaster had been cut from $22.50 to $17.47, announced a full-scale legal assault to plug discount-house breaches. Then it modified its stand, possibly because discount houses sell a great deal of merchandise. It contented itself with sending letters to its major New York retailers, department stores included, requesting a signed pledge to sell only at listed prices...
Training period for the 18 competitions will last until March 31. Although Friday evening's program will fellow the regular schedule, the production candidates will be running the show, while business and technical candidates will take over plug-writing and the controls...
...California's Applied Products Co. on a royalty deal (a minimum of $20,000 a year plus $2 for each machine sold in excess of 10,000). The machine, which has an adaptation of a powerful hydraulic pump previously used for cleaning airplane parts, needs no installation; just plug it into a socket and hook it onto the kitchen faucet...