Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landowner and master. When he mounts for the last charge, he must be revered, not because he is himself endearing, but because the alternative is a world of half-smoked cigarettes and tooting car horns. He is the only character in the movie who is more than the stock figure of a class or station...
Discounting the Drop. Many an economist, businessman and politician, though heartened by the figures, still had to be shown. But not the stock mar ket. Investors have largely discounted falling profits; no sooner did Chrysler Corp. announce a 71% drop in earnings than Chrysler stock went up. What interests the market now is the general economic outlook. On Administration reassurances that it is going to get better, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose for seven straight trading sessions, closed last week...
...annual meetings came to order last week, news of pinched profits during the first quarter of 1967 did little to dampen the spirit of this capitalistic rite of spring. Company directors grinned and bore the usual questions about executive wages, profit sharing, charitable contributions, and cumulative stock voting. A.T. & T.'s new chairman, Haakon I. Romnes, greeted his 4,801 guests at Baltimore's Civic Center and handled the meeting with aplomb. In Detroit, Chrysler shareholders barely flinched when Chairman Lynn A. Townsend told them that first-quarter earnings had plummeted 71 % from a year earlier...
...spices, blue for canned goods, red for dairy products, and so on. Finally he gives the cards to an operator who feeds them to a computer; in seconds the machine spews out a list of the items, prices and a total. Minutes later, a clerk appears from the stock room with the order. So rationally arranged is the selection that a list of 50 or more goods takes only a few minutes. And with only three assistants, Turquet can handle 30 people at a time during rush hours without creating bottlenecks...
After a month of operation, Turquet believes that his pristine store, where the whir of a Bull-GE TAS-84 computer has replaced the clang of pushcarts and the monotony of canned music, is a going concern. His profit margin is 15%, his stock turns over every two weeks, and, says he, "the 2% other supermarkets have to deduct in theft losses ev ery month pays my rental fee for the computer...