Word: pump
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...million; that is more than the Democratic National Committee. Last year the club was the nation's second largest independent political-action committee, raising $7.8 million, behind only the National Conservative Political Action Committee (N.C.P.A.C.), for which Helms also helps raise money. Such resources enabled the club to pump $4.5 million into Ronald Reagan's presidential effort. The club was able as well to send money to 30 conservative candidates for the House and Senate across the nation...
...companies have something they hope will beat Dial, Zest, Dove and other bar soaps at the sinks of American homes. It is liquid soap, a softer, creamier and better-smelling version of the soap that has been used for decades in public restrooms. Sales of liquid hand soap, in pump-dispenser plastic bottles, have grown from practically nothing two years ago to an estimated $100 million this year, and the new products have now captured about 10% of the total bar soap market...
...Tonight edition of New York's Daily News, predicts that his paper will turn a profit by 1984. "Philadelphia is big enough and vibrant enough to support two viable metropolitan newspapers," he says. The Charter Co., the oil, insurance and publishing conglomerate that owns the Bulletin, plans to pump in up to $30 million over the next four years. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Phillies Batting Star Pete Rose is doing some pitching for the Bulletin in radio spots. "I don't care whether you are a newspaper or a ballplayer," says Rose, "if you give 100%, if you bust your...
...wilds of California and had a friend regularly ship her Blue Bell's damn good product by commercial airliner. Have we heard this story before? Only once, at each of the best ice-cream shops in the world. Are some of these people turning up the air pump ever so slightly on the truth? Of course not; it is all true; the faltering U.S. airline industry would be bankrupt if it were not for thousands of gluttonous eccentrics, exiled from their home towns, freighting the world's best ice cream back and forth...
Anyone who doubts that superpremium buyers are getting more than ice cream should consider the Häagen-Dazs success. Salty old Tom Carvel, head of the 47-year-old, 800-store Carvel chain, is derisive: "All they did was reduce the air pump and quadruple the price, and the fools buy it." He says the nation's only real superpremium is his own, which is made fresh daily in his stores. Almost everyone else is impressed, and with reason. Reuben Mattus, who is 68 and white-whiskered now, helped his widowed mother Leah sell her lemon ices...