Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Result: labor now accounts for half of its operating costs on freighters and even more on passenger liners. High operating costs have also led to freight-rate rises of 48% since 1957, prompting many Hawaiian businessmen to blame Matson for the island's dizzily high prices and to shop for alternate shipping lines. Containing the Cargo. Powell has modernized the line's management and stepped up modernization of its fleet. Matson has converted one freighter into a floating garage to haul cars to Hawaii, and two others into bulk sugar carriers that pump their cargoes directly into...
...endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will be exposed to design as functional and dramatic as the airplane itself." Inside are a 220-seat restaurant-coffee shop, a nursery where one can check the children, and a cocktail lounge decorated with a 44-ft. mural depicting the history of gambling...
Irritating Switch. Toyo Kogyo was only a small machine shop when Owner Jujiro Matsuda, inspired by the sight of delivery boys' three-wheeled bikes, decided in the early 1930s to make a three-wheeled truck. His inexpensive Mazda truck was a boon to small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small...
...buts," said Slovene, and the Bulgars sent their life savings to the Window Shop for a magnificent birthday cake. Slovene's cousin, Pfannkuchen, picked out the most elegant variety: a Geburtstagfestspieltorte--five rich layers, drenched in Viennese chocolate and smothered with whipped cream and hazelnuts...
Committee on Solicitations," the man in black growled, and without any warning the two inspectors lunged for the box. The Window Shop employees did their best to save Serb's cake, but they were no match for fighters who had trained at the HSA Karate Institute. In a matter of seconds, the carton containing the Geburtstagfestspieltorte had rolled down the steps of Claverly into Mt. Auburn Street, where it was crushed flat by the wheels of an HSA Ollie Orbit Ice Cream truck that careened around the corner of Holyoke Street...