Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happy Cat Tavern was hit for $2,000 and two cases of whisky. From the Reese House restaurant, $4,000 was stolen. The U.S. Loan Co. lost $7,250. There were scores of others, and finally $40,000 was swiped from a Safeway supermarket on Denver's south side in one of the biggest thefts in the city's history. Denver screamed for the police to do something...
...commissioned him to do an auditorium, he not only rejected the International cube, but also Louis Sullivan's dictum of "form follows function." He put up an auditorium encased in a gleaming white three-cornered shell that could just as well have been an exhibition hall or a supermarket. For the chapel at M.I.T., his inspiration was the grottoes of Capri, which get their magic light from the sun bouncing...
...campaign organizer of rare talent. Within a year, O'Brien had recruited 350 secretaries, 18,000 volunteer Kennedy workers. By the time Kennedy formally announced his Senate candidacy, O'Brien was all ready with a purring statewide political machine. The O'Brien brain was a supermarket of political innovations: the campaign tea parties, with Kennedy's mother and sisters pouring (and an omnipresent guestbook to provide O'Brien with the names and addresses of potential campaign workers) ; the expanding "O'Brien Manual," a handbook of organizational instructions written in language that any amateur could...
...Where some appliance makers got hopelessly trapped in discount-house and supermarket-style selling, Maytag has worked to increase its control over the sales and servicing of its products...
...Paso. The railroad even sells airline tickets from its own far-flung ticket counters, and now Don Russell is petitioning the ICC for permission to buy a 50% interest in the John I. Hay barge lines on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. His grand plan is to form a "supermarket" of transportation...