Word: tap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tap 15 Billion in Sales
...Birmingham News recently made a survey showing that the city's 130,000 Negroes (40% of the total population) have an average family income of $1,849 a year, and are regular buyers of everything from baby food to electric refrigerators. To help tap this market, some Southerners have begun employing Negro salesmen, e.g., a Negro hired by a Packard dealer in Charleston,. S.C. sold two new and three used cars in his first 15 days. The month before, the entire staff had sold Negroes only four used cars...
...Schulman had collected 10 Ibs. of research, a list of worldwide sources for other TIME correspondents to tap, and the comment from Morrison that Reporter Schulman now knew enough about the business to hire on as a construction stiff...
Fish Fry. Frozen sticks of bottom fish (cod, halibut, etc.), dipped in batter and ready for quick cooking, are being put on the market by Seattle's San Juan Fishing & Packing Co. Such uncooked "Fish Stix" are the newest entry in the packers' race to tap the fast-growing fish-stick market. Frozen fish sticks, already cooked, are already being turned out by packers from the Northwest to New England, are selling at the rate of 7,262,000 Ibs. (more than $4,000,000 worth) a year...
...bartender, a balding man with a limp and a hearing aid, rested his back against the counter, his eyes fixed on the television set in the far corner of the room. From time to time he would pick up an empty beer glass and fill it from the tap marked Kruger. The bar was speckled with little pools of beer and small change, mostly dimes and quarters. Nobody was talking...