Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smaller retail businesses, it is easier to find evidence of recession in Cambridge. During the past year, total sales volume dropped six per cent, and many a small merchant is feeling the pinch for the first time since the war. New out-of-town highway stores have joined with buyer resistance in cutting down business...
...methods often mystify clients. When Chicago's Armour & Co. hired Loewy to redesign and repackage its 700-800 different products, he disappeared for about six months. Said Vice President Walter S. Shafer: "We didn't know what he was doing." Actually, Loewymen were out talking to hundreds of housewives who bought the products. When Loewy came back he told Armour to abolish all the multicolor labels that it had been using, and substitute a simple two-color pattern throughout. Armour saved enough money on color-printing alone to pay for the designer's services. As Lever Bros...
...Sweeping six out of 12 races, the freshman sailors won the Freshman Dinghy Championship of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association on the Charles River yesterday afternoon...
Levy, a French exchange student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, told police he was walking down Garden Street toward Radcliffe when a man about five feet six inches tall walked up to him and asked for a cigarette...
...coming election, nine councilmen and six School Committee members must be selected from a total of 56 candidates--40 for Council and 16 for the School Committee. Of those running the Cambridge Civic Association, a non-partisan group of voters, has endorsed 15. All others are campaigning as independents...