Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, Operation Breadbasket turned to promote sales of goods produced by Negro enterprises, threatening boycotts to force stores to stock such products as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. "Mumbo grew 600% in only four months," exults Jackson, who is now negotiating with Chicago stores to market the produce of an Alabama farm cooperative run by dispossessed Negro sharecroppers...
...James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin's new $150 Nehru blazer, the Fifth Avenue store sold out its entire stock of 100 jackets the very first...
...reason why so many new investors are taking the plunge these days is that virtually every brokerage firm is offering free courses in the mysteries of the market. The New York Stock Exchange, which prepares lessons and teaching aids for member firms, has helped organize 780 lectures drawing 33,690 people in the New York City area during the past six months. "It's almost mass-production sales promotion," says Reynolds & Co. Partner Alpheus Beane. His firm offers three different levels of courses to groups gathered anywhere from Y.M.C.A.s to shopping centers, and it is now sponsoring its second...
...because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim of inevitable change from personal rule to group rule. Charles lost his head. Hughes sold his TWA stock for $546.5 million...
...singers-including the modern figure of Bob Dylan-have usually been purveyors of a musical heritage, chroniclers of their time, protesters against injustice. But today's troubadours are turning away from protest. Their gaze is shifting from the world around them to the realms within. "They are taking stock of what they are," says one folk buff, "purging themselves until they feel sensitive and pure...