Word: supermarketeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gangsterland. Most are businessmen, or upper-income tourists who must "justify" their U.S. trip as business because of currency restrictions, though such restraints are being eased in many parts of the world, notably prospering Europe. Nearly all want to see the Grand Canyon, a U.S. supermarket and Disneyland. After King Mohammed V of Morocco paid an official visit to Disneyland, he returned later in civilian clothes, paid his own way to see it all again...
...imported), that local dealers boosted prices until they were charging 31? per quart for home-delivered milk, 28? for store-bought. That was too much for Connecticut's housewives. Last week, after a two-year revolt, they won their fight-with a little help from a hustling supermarket. Grade A milk was down to as low as 19? a quart in the stores, and home-delivered milk was down 3? to 28? a quart...
...economy-size half-gallon and gallon jugs. Holding public meetings, going on radio and TV pressuring legislators, the women raised such a rumpus that Connecticut's legislature passed a pair of bills legalizing both half-gallon and gallon jugs. But even then milk prices stayed high until a supermarket chain began a price...
...nine years ago, Carpenter Alfonso Frisina had little money and less English, but he barged right into the contracting business; this year Frisina will put up Hamilton's first skyscraper, a 22-story, $4,000,000 office building. Toronto-born Harvey Keith, 55, quit his job as a supermarket supervisor in 1950, borrowed $5,000 to go into real estate, guessed right on the horseshoe's land boom, last year grossed $33 million. Japanese-Canadian Arthur Tateishi, 40, who began building phonographs in his basement after work hours, went into business in 1945, expanded to meet...
...earsplitting welcome from 35 automobile horns, then mobbed him with such enthusiasm that Jack had to climb into an open convertible in order to be seen. Afterward, the college kids dragged out a reluctant donkey (rented for $20 by the efficient Kennedy organization), then followed Kennedy into a supermarket, waving homemade college-humor signs (PUT JACK IN THE WHITE SHACK, PUT A NEW JOHN IN THE WHITE HOUSE). Later, during a brief stopover in a hotel, Kennedy cheerfully hopped out of his bathtub, dressed hurriedly to make a ten-minute TV appearance...