Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retired from the corps two months later, after he learned that he was about to be transferred to Panama. (His retired rank is a so-called "tombstone promotion.") At week's end, General David Shoup, the no-nonsense Marine commandant, ordered the offensive copies of Cavalier back on sale at all Marine bases. The story was out, the corps and its esprit had survived, and there was no point in not telling it to the marines...
...bill passes the House, it will then go to the Cambridge City Council, where a simple majority will allow the sale. At a public hearing in January before the Committee on Cities, five of the nine councilors--John D. Lynch, Thomas M. McNamara, Walter J. Sullivan, Andrew T. Trodden, and Alfred E. Vellucci--registered their approval of the sale...
...their executives. Long ago, faced with incontrovertible evidence gathered by the Eisenhower Administration's relentless trustbusters, the companies and individuals had pleaded guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) to charges that they conspired over the past seven years to fix prices and rig bids in the sale of some $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment (TIME, Feb. 29, 1960, et seq.). Now the moment of reckoning had come. First before the court came the lawyer for John H. Chiles Jr., 57, a vice president of Westinghouse, to plead for mercy. His client, said the lawyer, while Chiles bowed...
Electronic Bill Writer. A transistorized electric typewriter that takes instruction from a punched paper tape and automatically types in all the repetitive material on business order forms was put on sale by Smith-Corona Marchant Inc. The machine stops at the proper place on the form to let the operator type in such variables as quantity of items ordered. At the same time it prepares a punch tape record of the whole order, so that subsequent copies can be made automatically. Price...
Floating Doughnut. A 14-ft.-diameter, circular fiber-glass motorboat is being offered for sale in Japan by Yamaha Motor Co. Designed for leisurely cruising with the calm sensation of a water lily, or as a roomy fishing boat or diving platform, it is driven by an outboard motor installed through a hole in the center. Price in Japan...