Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Motors and Chrysler), oils (Texaco, Standard of California and Jersey Standard), chemicals (Du Pont, Union Carbide and Allied Chemical) and, of course, A.T. & T., the world's largest corporation. Because all the Dow industrials have large numbers of shares outstanding, it takes substantial sums from investors to push their prices up more than a mite. Many Wall Street analysts thus took last week's recovery as a signal of renewed confidence by big institutional investors in basic industry. If the rally continues, its momentum could well give the whole economy a psychological lift...
...drugstore grew. Today, the Walgreen empire has 523 wholly owned outlets, plus a franchise network of 1,900 independents licensed to use the Walgreen name and sell its products. Store managers get rigid directions on everything from sexy magazines and paperbacks they cannot sell to what products they should push. The Golden Rule for all Walgreen store managers is: go below, never above, the recommended price...
Twenty thousand different luxury items-including 2,400 kinds of wallets -have helped push Mark Cross's sales to an annual rate of $3,000,000. Profits rose 25% in both 1965 and 1966. In the first six months of 1967, the Fifth Avenue shop remained well ahead of other retailers, increasing earnings 20% over last year. George Wasserberger, 38, one of four U.S. entrepreneurs who took over 122-year-old Mark Cross in 1962, attributes its success to uncompromising quality. "We have never sacrificed lasting fashion for fad," he says. His philosophy is expressed in a recent Mark...
...traced to an orgy of overspending by the governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard. To restore public confidence, Kiesinger's seven-month-old coalition regime last week finally reached for drastic measures that will put the budget in better balance and then, the government hopes, help push the economy back up the mountain...
...industrial-state "Corporation" has just hauled them out of a tramp car where they had sunk temporary roots, and pushed them into a new Formica wonder in a housing development. They run their, lives not by push-cards, but by a series of such disorderly urges as lust, the desire to kill, hunger, and pressure on the bladder. And they choose to ignore the Health Services, the schools, the police, and the rules in general...