Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Show cannibalized two other moribund magazine babies: Show Business Illustrated, a misguided effort of Playboy's Hugh He fner and USA* 1, a monthly news-and-history magazine that lasted just five issues. Last week, after losing $2,000,000 in the last year, Show itself was for sale, has been offered, in whole or part, to half a dozen prospects. So far, no takers...
...since nylon and Dacron came along has a synthetic product stirred such interest and aggressive merchan dising as Corfam, Du Pont's new substi tute for leather. Put on sale only two months ago after years of develop ment, Corfam is already made in 100 different shoe styles by 32 manufac turers, is in such demand that Du Pont's pilot plant at Newburgh, N.Y., cannot keep up. The company is build ing a full-scale Corfam plant in Old Hickory, Tenn., and another in Malines, Belgium, to supply the European mar ket, is spending...
Slavonic Bill Holden. Marton, 42, is managing director of Zagreb-based Sljeme Agricultural Industrial Corp., whose sales last year topped $37 million -a fourteenfold increase in eight years. Sljeme (pronounced Slay-me) now owns four farms stocked with 20,000 head of cattle, 100,000 pigs, 2,000,000 poultry, and ponds full of trout and carp. It employs 3,500 workers and has four large factories that produce everything from semiprepared "TV dinners" to pickled pigs' feet for sale in its 60 food stores, eight restaurants and one hotel. And it makes its deliveries in its own fleet...
...breeding race horses is as risky as roulette. Horsemen estimate that fully one fourth of the foals dropped never get to the starting gate. The odds against producing a Kentucky Derby winner are about 14,000 to 1. However, Wright struck it rich: in 1936, at the Saratoga yearling sale, he bid $14,000 for a brown colt named Bull Lea. On the track, Bull Lea won a useful $94,825. But it was in the barn with the mares that Bull Lea lived up to his name. By last year, his offspring, most notably Citation, Armed and Iron Liege...
...means that many of the religious strictures so galling to nonobservant Jews will continue. Telegraph service is curtailed on the Sabbath (Saturday) and on religious holidays, and in most cities and towns there is no public transportation. Except for a few Christian Arab areas, pork products are not for sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights in Israel on Saturdays or religious holidays, and its galleys may serve only kosher food, a puzzlement to Gentile passengers, who find they must drink their coffee black after a meal of meat or chicken...