Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeering he received at an N.A.A.C.P. meeting. In Washington, Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen Young warned that if any Negro demonstrators try a sit-in demonstration in his office he will "personally and forcibly" throw them out. In New York City, demonstrators besieging a White Castle hamburger shop (they were demanding that the owners of the chain hire more Negroes and Puerto Ricans) met with a Dixie-style barrage of jeers and insults from white youths of the neighborhood...
While he was rushing about adding links to his U.S. chain, Hilton's unfailing courtesy launched him almost by accident into the international hotel business. When Puerto Rico decided in 1947 that it needed a first-class hotel to help lure U.S. businessmen to set up shop there, Teodoro Moscoso, chief of the Puerto Rico Development Corp. (and now the director of the Alliance for Progress), fired off letters to leading U.S. hotelmen inviting them to come down. Only Hilton answered promptly, with a warm, friendly letter that began by greeting the Spanish-speaking Moscoso as "Mi estimado amigo...
Divided loyalty has never been a problem for the Brenninkmeyers. More than 100 family members occupy almost all the command posts in the company, which was started 122 years ago by Clemens and August Brenninkmeyer, German farmer's sons who opened a fabrics shop in the Dutch town of Sneek and whose descendants later pioneered in ready-to-wear. By tradition, young Brenninkmeyer men are sent around to the company's foreign stores to learn every facet of the operation. While there are no outside directors, the story in Amsterdam is that the Roman Catholic Brenninkmeyers always leave...
...furniture, even acquired television sets. They do calisthenics to keep in shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down the street; Luis has a small appliance-repair business. In the evenings their families come by for dinner; several nights a week their wives sleep...
...process 70 cattle an hour, compared with 40 a few years ago, and to do the job with 60 men instead of 150. Jones & Laughlin oxygen steel furnaces in Cleveland recently poured 491 tons of steel in one hour, compared with 60 tons for a similar-sized open hearth shop. Last week Reynolds Metals Co. announced that it had developed a laboratory method of turning bauxite into aluminum without first reducing it to alumina powder,* and that other revisions in its existing production lines will enable it to increase production more than 21% on demand...