Word: shacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...objection to Dolly's new musical style, it is not detectable in the heavy bursts of cheers. Nonetheless, her reach for the show-business sky is a considerable gamble. Country fans are music's most loyal, especially to a singer who comes from a three-room shack in Tennessee, as Dolly does. But their tastes and preferences are not lightly ignored. Dolly knows that and says imploringly, "I don't want to leave the country. I want to take the country with me." Her voice has always been a high, accurate chirp that is sometimes tremulous with...
...driving force behind Radio Shack's success is Tandy Corp.'s chairman and president Charles D. Tandy, 58, a Texan who attended Harvard Business School, sold war bonds while serving in the Navy, then went into the family leather-goods business at the end of World War II. He bought the small Boston-based Radio Shack chain 13 years ago, when it was $1.5 million in debt...
...live for and will die for this work," says Tandy, who talks with a kind of cultivated Texas swagger. "If they don't want to do that, then beat it. Let them work for Sears." The system has produced managers such as C.L. Whitfield of the Guam Radio Shack, who journeyed to Japan to pick up new 40-channel CB radios so he could be the first to sell them on U.S. soil Jan. 1?which was still Dec. 31 on the mainland...
Tandy's formula has worked. After a decade of solid but fairly slow growth, the chain suddenly took off; between 1972 and 1976 the number of stores more than tripled. During the company's fiscal year ending last June, profits rose 120%, to $64 million. Radio Shack indeed has almost taken over its parent firm. Tandy Corp. has spun off most of its other businesses into separate companies chaired by Charles Tandy, and now has only minor operations other than Radio Shack...
Bright Outlook. Not all has been success. Radio Shack stores in big cities have done less well than those in small towns?perhaps because Tandy's locations, shopping malls, are rarely found in large cities?and the company's outlets in Europe and Japan are faring so poorly that Tandy has put a freeze on expansion there. But overall, the outlook is bright. Electronics buffs say Radio Shack's products are reasonably priced and of good quality. As CBers clamor for new 40-channel "ears," Tandy can relish his own CB "handle": Mr. Lucky...