Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since California-based Safeway Stores Inc. invaded the East Coast in the early 19405, its 164 New York City area supermarkets have been consistent money losers. Last week Chairman Robert Magowan, 57, sold off the New York stores for an estimated $25 million to First National Stores Inc. The sale was part of Magowan's tough-minded drive to streamline Safeway, which with 2,216 stores is the nation's second largest (after A. & P.) retail food chain. Since he took command at Safeway in 1955, Magowan has sharply pared headquarters staff, ruthlessly closed obsolete stores, and raised...
...Lost Sale. Two weeks ago. Harris seized a patrol boat that had been sailed to the U.S. by three defecting Castro navymen. By last week he had a buyer ready to pay $55,000 for the vessel-when the U.S. State Department suddenly announced that the boat was protected by diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th...
...recede, and the unrelenting pressure for freedom by the colony's 5,500,000 blacks began to tell. Kenya's economy faltered: $2,800,000 in white-settler capital left Kenya weekly, and 800 of the colony's 3,600 white-settler farms went up for sale. In 1960 Sir Patrick Renison still denounced Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death...
...auto companies set to swing into production of 1962 cars, Detroit last week was talking of the "Year of Multiplicity." The 1961 choice of 352 different models was more than the ordinary car buyer's imagination could cope with. With the 1962s, the number of models on sale will hit an alltime high of 400-and more may come if the auto manufacturers follow through on their talk of bringing out Volkswagen-sized models later in the year...
...settings are clay-road South and rockfield state of Maine. The best of the Maine pieces is The Corduroy Pants. Bert Fellows has sold his farm for $1,200 to Abe Mitchell, whom he has known all his life. But two weeks after the sale, Bert remembers that he has left his other pair of pants in the farmhouse attic. He asks Abe to let him fetch the pants, but Abe, although the pants are too big for him, will not let go of the windfall...