Word: popcorned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Entrepreneur Lapin, 38, is on the way to becoming a millionaire, thanks mostly to franchising, one of the fastest-growing facets of U.S. business. Franchisers build national chains dealing in everything from popcorn to part-time help by licensing others to invest in and operate stores or offices; the franchiser makes money from the license and by selling supplies, techniques or recipes as well as nationally advertised signs, slogans and decor. Such operations now do a combined annual business of $25 billion, are growing 10% yearly...
...lady in front of you doesn't get up and leave in the middle or turn to her husband at least three times to say, "This is disgusting," then you sat in the wrong seat. If you can eat your buttered popcorn all the way through without flinching, then you've got the wrong attitude...
...college town, who today outdraws Dr. Strangelove, outclocks Gone With the Wind, and breaks all known records for popcorn sales? It's not a bird or a plane but, of all things, Batman. The 1939 comic-strip creation of Bob Kane, which Columbia Pictures filmed in 1943 as a 15-episode serial, has now been spliced, end to end, to produce a 248-minute marathon of fist fights, zombies and ravenous alligators. Last week it was packing the house at an off-campus theater near the University of Illinois, and Columbia plans similar orgies in 20 major cities...
...California Entrepreneur Eugene Victor Klein likes to see his customers behave. Klein, 44, is chairman, president (salary: $156,000 a year) and chief stockholder of National General Corp., the second largest U.S theater chain.* By catering to and encouraging the moviegoers' need to nibble on popcorn, candy and anything else he can sell them in his 220 theaters, Klein in four years has brought National General from a $6,700,000 loss to a $3,030,000 profit. His secret he has managed to raise the average cinemagoer's expenditure on snackfrom...
...arrives at his base strip around 7:30 a.m., gets briefed, then buzzes off in search of the enemy. He flies low, and traveling with him is an unsettling experience. Says an ex-passenger, "When you're riding with him, it sounds like a popcorn machine-there's so much stuff coming...