Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parade" at L'Tnnovation, Brussels' second biggest department store, and more than $1,000,000 in American-made goods were on sale at its six-story downtown store and four outlying branches. Bruxellois by the thousands jammed the main store situated on Rue Neuve to examine and buy American household gadgets, costume jewelry, sporting goods and nearly every kind of apparel, including paper dresses. Few paid much attention to picketing by pro-Peking youths or to the anti-U.S. tracts they passed out. To make the occasion thoroughly American, L'Tnnovation officials had splashed red, white...
...book rights to Twenty Letters, Harper & Row paid $250,000. After paying an estimated $400,000 for serialization rights, LIFE magazine will run a 30,000-word excerpt in the issue that goes on sale Oct. 10. The New York Times paid about $250,000 for an equal number of words to be run in six installments beginning Oct. 8; these will be made available at a surcharge to the 175 North American newspapers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service...
...well help Boeing with its huge capital needs by guaranteeing some loans. Even so, the Government's share of the $4.5 billion development bill should come to no more than $1.3 billion. The Government should easily recover all of that through royalty payments with the sale of the 300th plane (so far, including foreign orders, options have been taken on 114 U.S. SSTs). After that, Government royalties will be all gravy; by the sale of the 500th, for example, the return on the taxpayers' investment will be climbing beyond a compound annual rate...
...Arrogant to Sell. The first non-Wedgwoodian to direct the firm, Bryan ascended in 1963 after he had added zip to stagnating operations in America, where representatives were living off the company's great name. "They were too damn arrogant to write a sale," says he. Heads rolled, operations were reorganized, and in less than two years North American sales jumped by a third. That market, in fact, accounts for about 40% of the company's sales...
With the expansion that will continue with the sale of stock to the public, the company hopes that it can eventually catch up with its orders. Then perhaps Chairman Josiah Wedgwood, 67, the great-great-great-grandson of the founder, will not be forced to apologize to customers "who have had to suffer the long and vexatious delays owing to orders running in excess of productive capacity...