Word: supermarketeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Millions of American housewives daily stop in front of a supermarket shelf and pick up a bar of Ivory soap, a box of Tide or Cheer, a package of Duncan Hines Cake Mix, a bottle of Clorox or Mr. Clean. For the maker of all these products, the Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, the pickings add up to sales of more than $2 billion a year and profits that reached $133.2 million in the fiscal year ended last June. P. & G. dwarfs its closest rivals, Colgate-Palmolive Co. (1964 sales: $806.6 million) and Lever Bros. Co. ($436.4 million...
...SUPERMARKET SWEEP (ABC, 11-11:30 a.m.). To replace its high-class and low-rated discussion show Young Set, ABC has come up with two no-class game shows (see also below). Supermarket Sweep will originate from different stores each week, feature local contestants racing around the market scooping up as many groceries as possible. Premiere...
Mattress-Sized Popsicles. In turning art into a supermarket display, artists are reacting violently against the grandiloquent gestures of yesterday's abstract expressionists, whose work often looked like a square inch of Constable blown up to jumbo size. As the life went out of such abstract handwriting on walls, artists fell back on the visible world. In their embrace of reality, they state that art is no longer that which only looks like...
...million-a-year Gulf & Western makes and sells auto parts throughout the U.S., controls 57 subsidiary companies, and has branched into the manufacture of jet-engine parts, guitars, and survival equipment for spacemen. Through his own outside investments, Bluhdorn also controls the East's 197-store Bohack supermarket chain, and is the third largest shareholder in Ward Foods...
...available to millions as pesticides, cleansers, barbiturates and tranquilizers, and many cannot at present be detected in a cadaver. The mod ern world, in Thorwald's opinion, has become a poisoner's paradise in which do-it-yourself-death is on sale at the nearest supermarket-in the handy-dandy family size...