Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also, Mrs. Sarah M. McCoy, New York City; Mrs. Marilyn S. Matthews, Cambridge; Mrs. Ann E. Rose, Washington, D.C.; Rebecca A. Stafford, Topeka, Kan.; Stephanie von Susich, Framingham; Mrs. Sarah M. White, Rensselaerville...
...went. Langdell Hall was dedicated as the new home for the Law School; someone in University Hall took a poll, and discovered that economics had edged out English as the most popular field of concentration; and down on Memorial Drive rose the tower of Dunster House, which prompted the CRIMSON to complain that the "general impression conveyed by the tower is that of some exotic ornament, grafted onto a simple New England colonial house...
Though President Eisenhower gave the industry special permission to cooperate during the Suez shutdown, the Justice Department charged that oilmen had gone far beyond that. In early January 1957, prices of Texas crude oil rose generally by 35? per bbl.; shortly thereafter, gasoline, home-heating oil and other refined products went up in most markets by about 1? per gal. Said the Justice Department: "For the purpose and with the intent of raising, fixing and stabilizing prices of crude oil and automotive gasoline, each defendant . . . would increase its posted price of crude oil . . . and each defendant engaged in the marketing...
Changing Markets. Brooklyn-born Charles Mortimer joined the old Postum Cereal Co. in 1928, rose fast as adman and merchandiser. He needs both specialties now because the sweeping change in the U.S. food market has put almost 70% of grocery sales into the supermarkets, where General Foods must compete against the supermarkets' own private brands. To do it, General Foods beats the advertising drum heavily. Says Mortimer: "You have to sell your product before people get to the supermarket...
...maid service. This year housewives will buy about $350 million worth of General Foods products that were barely known or not even on the market 15 years ago, e.g., soluble coffee, frozen juices, cake mixes. "There was a 25% population increase from 1940 to 1955, but food sales rose 60% in terms of constant dollars," says Mortimer. "Americans are not eating more, but they are eating better...