Word: supermarketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some businessmen question whether it is good showmanship to display such things as a gadget-packed, full-scale U.S. house or a supermarket to impoverished people who can barely understand what they are, let alone buy them. But most businessmen believe that people over the world want to see the best and latest U.S. products, even though it is often a problem to make clear that the wonders are enjoyed by the average American...
...store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles long, in some places ploughed a 1,000-yd. swath, splintered more than 700 homes and 40 stores. Ruskin Heights and its shopping center were hard hit. Four died when a supermarket roof collapsed. Total storm toll: 38 dead, 200 injured...
...average U.S. citizen afraid of banks? Why does he love big cars? Why, when he goes into an automobile showroom, does he get excited over the convertibles and wind up buying a sedan? Why do most housewives go into a hypnoidal trance in a supermarket...
ITALY'S FIRST SUPERMARKET is doing such a booming business that five new ones will be started in Rome this year. In June Romans will try another U.S. import-Italy's first drivein theater, with space for 560 cars, plus carhop snack service, automatic washing machines to do the laundry while family watches film...
...columnists had been accurately predicting who would carry away Oscars from the award-giving show of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Any glamour that was left was promptly rubbed out by the split-second demands of television, which turned the parade of winners into a supermarket mob scene. "It was." concluded Hollywood Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, "perfectly dull...