Word: supermarkets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal days, John Eisenhower's wife, with only part-time help, runs her own house in Gettysburg (at the edge of Ike's farm). She gets three (of four) children off to public school, does her grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a week at the Red Cross office-filing, typing, helping with organizational chores. She is a qualified nurse's aid, serves part-time in the local hospital, plays bridge with the girls, attends P.T.A. meetings, keeps her Washington social life to a minimum, and on the whole, keeps her children from...
...average new supermarket now devotes 80 ft. of space to frozen foods, carries as many as 100 different cake, cookie and biscuit mixes, about 50 kinds of baby food, shelf after shelf of quick rice, instant salad dressing and other jiffy goods. The housewife can buy her frozen potatoes whipped, French fried, crinkle cut, hashed, creamed, diced, stuffed baked, escalloped, puffed, pattied, rissoléd-and home fried. She can pick up scores of different frozen complete meals, buy dozens of frozen vegetables from peas (the favorite) to chives, soups that run from tomato to wonton...
Even though the bulk of the crop--from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said the growers' spokesman, "on a cranberry witchhunt...
...drive for bigger and better markets is moving even faster in Italy, which got its first look at U.S.-style retailing three years ago when Grand Union set up a Supermercato at an international food congress in Rome. Virtually every major Italian city has at least one supermarket-and plans for more. Two supermarkets are operating in Turin, two more in Bologna, another two in Naples. Rome alone has seven supermarkets. Last week Italy's big La Rinascente department-store chain jumped into the field, bought Rome's big Supermercato S.p.A. for a reported $750,000, and expects...
...small grocers are fighting the supermarkets hard. France's Fédération des Syndicats de l'Epicerie complain that "thousands of small independents have been forced out of business. If the wave continues, another 10,000 will have to close down in the next two years." Germans complain of the "foreign menace" to their livelihood, while Italian shopkeepers lobby insistently to prevent local city governments from granting licenses to the new stores. But the trend is all to the supermarkets. When a big new market opened in Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked...