Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-way purchasing agreement between G.M., U.S. Rubber and itself, thus freezing out competing suppliers, e.g., G.M. had at one time agreed to buy at least 50% of its rubber products from U.S. Rubber. This, it is charged, was later revised upward, with different G.M. divisions agreeing to take different percentages of U.S. Rubber products...
...list of "ten commandments" drawn up by a panel of businessmen. Samples: "Keep the tired businessman's pills straight. Dress with decorum, not decollete; the boss wants to keep his mind on his work. Correct the boss's grammar and spelling, but do it tactfully. Take messages that won't need the decoding of a top secret. When the boss's wife calls, be diplomatic. Be compatible, but not too compatible...
...Seattle, an insurance salesman refurbished an old trick to sign up the uninsured. He got pictures of unsuspecting prospects, had an artist brush in the lines, sags and bags they might have at 65, and confronted the subjects with the question : "What are you doing to take care of this fellow...
...movie exhibitors were fed up with playing the villain's role. For years, and as recently as LIFE'S Round Table on the movies (TIME, June 27), they had heard familiar squawks from Hollywood: theater owners take most of the film industry's profits, run the fewest risks and keep its output down to mediocre level by calling the turn for the moviemakers...
...Take One False Step (Universal-International) features William Powell climbing in & out of a highly unlikely scrape. As a distinguished educator in search of a university endowment, Powell appears hardly bright enough to run a class in finger-painting. Though happily married, he accepts a date with a blonde barfly