Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last December, when Edward Carlson took over United Air Lines, company wits spread the gag that he would ground U.A.L.'s superjets and run them as hotels. The point of the barb: Carlson had risen from bellhop to president of the Seattle-based Western International Hotel chain, but his airline background was limited to less than five months of sitting on United's board after Western was merged into U.A.L. If anything, lack of experience in the deficit-ridden industry has proved an advantage. In 1970 United lost almost $41 million, but last week it reported a third...
...year. "I try to tell white businessmen," she says, "that black is now, black is profit, black is here to stay." In Chicago, Barbara Proctor, president and owner of Proctor and Gardner Advertising Inc., argues that U.S. tastes today originate in the black community, then gradually spread to more affluent whites. She therefore advises her clients-including the Jewel supermarket chain and Sears, Roebuck's local branch-to aim their ads in the Negro-oriented newspaper and radio media not only at black families but also the white students attending colleges in predominantly black communities. The agency...
...building is being fumigated before demolition "for sanitary reasons," said Joseph Stasa, Assistant Director of Planning. "You know what happened there earlier in the spring. The building was invaded. Something might spread while it is being demolished." He denied that the women's occupation influenced the decision to tear it down, however...
...relative way. Phil Shaw may be remote from the ethnic neighborhoods but he is virtually the only candidate who is close to the wide-spread and numerically large neighborhood of the young. While Shaw has gone to North and East Cambridge, while he has walked up and down the streets of the Model Cities area, what contact have Sullivan. Danehy, Clinton, et al, had with the 40 per cent of the electorate who are young and newly arrived in this city? It is sad that Mr. Day feels that the politics of Cambridge belongs only to the life-long residents...
...chancelleries and the countinghouses of major capitals last week, worry spread about the possibility of a decline in world trade, leading to a further global economic slowdown and perhaps a recession. Not all of the concern could be laid to Nixon's New Economic Policy. A decline in the previously vigorous rates of economic growth abroad was well under way last spring...