Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America is flooded with comparable and cheaper foreign goods which the consumer will buy in place of ours, industry will suffer losses, be forced to lay off employees, and possibly close shop. The country will be in a poor economic situation. Then our New Frontier wagonmasters will be forced to procure the only solution: federal control of business. America will have taken a giant step toward a welfare state...
...Schwarz has built its sales from a Depression low of $675,000 to $5,500,000 last year, now boasts seven branches.* Name customers have been commonplace ever since Thomas Edison strolled in to shop for a doll and lingered in fascination over a Schwarz jack-in-the-box. Caroline Kennedy's toy list for her first Christmas at the White House was filled at Schwarz. "Why are we successful?" asks Schwarz President Charles Veysey, 45, and offers an answer that doesn't explain: "F.A.O. Schwarz is a retailing phenomenon." Another Schwarz executive provides a clue: "Grandparents...
...Clernon has suggested in recent statements that the MTA may soon settle this difficulty, but Tyler is scarcely so optimistic. He stresses, in fact, that the Authority must not only find and build a practical and extensive system of new yards but erect and equip a new repair shop as well before it can even consider selling the Bennett St. property...
...appointed hotel room is closed-circuit television. At Manhattan's Statler Hilton, guests jaded with westerns and private-eye shows can now watch Telad Corp.'s repeating half-hour program on what to buy, do and see in New York; this week and next, Telad will open shop on Channel 6 (normally a blank on the dial) in two other New York hotels. A rival outfit, Teleguide, will start broadcasting via its own coaxial cable to some 12,000 rooms at a dozen Manhattan hostelries this week. Its basic one-hour program will include entertainment, shopping and sightseeing...
...Test of Quality. Despite such paternalism, Hershey has had its full quota of labor trouble. A sitdown strike in 1937 set off a head-cracking battle between union and nonunion employees; in another bitter strike in 1953, the union was defeated in its demand for a closed shop. But since then, says the local agent of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bakery and Confectionery Workers, "our relationship has been progressively better...