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...trimmed 6% from 5,978 fair-traded items, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision which knocked a key prop from under fair-trade laws (TIME, June 4). Warned Macy's Richard Weil Jr.: if competitors matched the cuts, Macy's would slash prices another 6% "quicker than you can say 'knife.'" But Gimbels had its own knife ready. To keep tabs on Macy's, Gimbels set up a GHQ to direct its comparison shoppers, added 287 assistant buyers and its training squad of 43 college students to its staff of a dozen shoppers. From...
...help do this better and quicker, the materials-handling makers last week displayed hundreds of their latest products ranging from cranes and monorail conveyors to the ubiquitous forklift trucks which are already creating their own folklore. They can raise heavy loads (up to 40 tons) up an elevatorlike track, and stack them as high as 15 ft. above the floor Some of the new trucks came equipped with interchangeable accessories-forks for lifting boxes, steel fingers for grabbing big rolls, e.g., newsprint. One model boasted a two-way radio, by which its driver could be directed to any corner...
...think of a quicker way to drive all small businessmen to socialism than by loading them down with more government regulations...
...fearfully tired and worn out" from their poetry-reading tour of the U.S., Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell compared notes on audiences at home and abroad. Said Sir Osbert: "American audiences are more inquiring, more responsive, and not so tired as the English." Sister Edith agreed: "American response is quicker. Some of our meetings were like revivalist's meetings...
...addicts learn and change hophead jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...