Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gifts were on their way to U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam for Christmas. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, it seemed, had responded to the same gut reaction that moved Virginia Beach, Va., Housewife Betty McKenzie, co-chairman of a gift-collecting group that came up with 8,440 shoe boxes full of socks, tobacco, razor blades and candy. Said she: "It was our answer to draft-card burners, beatniks and anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
...craving for improved goods and services, more eagerly embrace new products than any other people. Their willingness to buy almost anything that will amuse, uplift, beautify or offer convenience is demonstrated by the marketplace successes of such things as textured stockings, the electric carving knife, skate boards, diet cola, shoe-shining machines and speed-reading courses. Getting backers for a sound idea is no real problem; credit is cheaper (average interest rate: 5%) and bankers more eager to lend in the U.S. than in any other major nation...
...Germany in 1963 because many of the goods it would like to sell-bicycles, sewing machines, textiles-proved so inferior that the Germans would not buy them. Hungary has a glut of poor-quality textiles, including cheap shirts labeled in English "The Very Honorable, Foreign Made," also produces cheap shoes called Baby Doll to compete with those from Czechoslovakia's Communist-owned Bata shoe factory. Unable to sell either item to the West, Hungarian companies were forced to unload them on home consumers at cut-rate prices...
...bathtub by Rudolph Valentino, a year of ballet lessons, and eight hours of service by a ten-man parking team for a private party. For $475, two culture angels rented the Old Globe Theater for an evening with the intention of staging a play and cocktail party, and Shoe Magnate Harry Karl, husband of Debbie Reynolds, forked out $1,600 to rent an "executive bus" for two weeks, along with drivers, food and beverages. He plans to take a small group of friends on a tour of his out-of-the-way stores...
Giveaways provide Detroit with another opportunity. In current contests, for example, CITGO is offering a Mustang, and Tetley Tea and Purina Dog Chow are offering Pontiacs as prizes. Thom McAn is introducing a new shoe named GTO, will give away 20 Pontiac GTOs and carry splashy signs in its 850 stores showing pictures of the car as well as the shoe...