Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allen does much of his business with about a dozen electronics companies, including Ampex, International Telephone & Telegraph, and Lockheed's missiles di vision. Firms often give him small but difficult projects for which they can spare neither time nor men. The company is developing a specialized product line of its own, including transformers and various electrical filters, has raised its work force to 15 (now all adults) in a new plant. Since Allen has had to finance his business out of profits, he has been care ful to see that whatever he made was certain to sell, draws only...
...spread by word of mouth, and orders poured in from doctors and from neighbors who preferred its taste and texture to that of the day's spongy, artificially fortified bread. Then Maggie Rudkin made a fateful decision. She had no manufacturing training or experience, no capital, and a product that sold for 25?, v. only 10? for a loaf of regular bread. "Fortunately," she says, "I was too ignorant to know about these matters." She put a loaf of bread and some butter in a package, took a train to Manhattan and walked into Charles & Co., specialty grocers. There...
...folklore of the U.S. food industry, mouths water and registers jingle when any product-from maple syrup to dog biscuits-is endowed with the nostalgic aura of the "old-fashioned." No one has better succeeded in transforming that folklore into fact than trim, green-eyed Margaret Rudkin, 62, founder and president of Pepperidge Farm Inc., the largest U.S. independent baking company. Maggie Rudkin-as she is styled in her company's homey TV ads-brought old-fashioned bread back to U.S. dinner tables in mass-production fashion, thereby baked her way into a $40-million-a-year business, which...
Maze of Mirrors. What emerges from Bergman's personal and passionate process of creation bears small resemblance to the Hollywood product. Often Bergman's images are sudden, vivid, enigmatic. His camera makes a running and usually ironic comment on the action. He tells his story in subtle cadences of closeups ("What interests me is the face"), letting his camera move surely, sensitively with the flow of feeling and expression. There is a kind of stillness sometimes even in violence, a magic even in the commonplace...
...stay there, the effects on the economy could be a long time in coming. The monthly business letter of the First National City Bank of New York pointed out that inventory accumulation in the last business cycle reached its peak in the final quarter of 1955. Yet gross national product continued to rise through the third quarter of 1957-two years longer...