Word: supermarketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study in the artful fusion of sparkling glass, glazed brick and gleaming metal, the long, low, U-shaped group faces a landscaped plaza decorated with colored fountains and lit by a splendid illuminating system. Into the passenger buildings are packed modern supermarket-like facilities to speed travelers on their way: escalators to carry passengers from floor to floor, 32 special customs check-out counters to which passengers wheel their luggage in marketlike pushcarts, enclosed arcades that enable passengers of each overseas flight to go through the port without getting mixed up with domestic passengers. Around the new terminal buildings will...
Market Crash. In San Bernardino, Calif., as he and a sheriff's officer chased a burglar through his supermarket, Owner Charles R. Barmlett drew a careful bead on the thief, fired his revolver, wounded the deputy in the thigh...
THANKSGIVING TURKEYS this year will cost less than at any time since before World War II. Production will rise to record 80.6 million birds for 1957, and frozen stocks are 53% above a year ago. Manhattan supermarket sale prices...
FIRST U.S. SUPERMARKET in a Communist country proved such a thumping success at Zagreb Fair that Yugoslav government's export-import agency will buy the market's refrigerator display cases, prepackaging equipment, shopping carts and checkout stands for about $30,000, use them to start supermarkets of its own. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslavs trooped through U.S. supermart during 15-day fair...
...SUPERMARKET will be shown in Communist country for first time at Yugoslavia's Zagreb trade fair Sept. 7 to 22. U.S. food companies and store-equipment manufacturers will set up a 10,000-sq.-ft. store including display cases, frozen-food refrigerators and 4,000 different items with prices attached. Group will donate food to local charities, expects to sell store's equipment to Yugoslavia when the show closes...