Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liquidation, still proceeding at a fantastic $7 billion annual clip, will level off rapidly, perhaps even reverse into a modest inventory accumulation. The uncertainties of international affairs will cause many a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer to think twice before eating more deeply into his stocks. The wise businessmen will tend to keep inventories level, or increase them a bit as a hedge against possible emergency. Said a Cleveland machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion, now in the doldrums...
DERBY HATS are due for a comeback this fall, following rise of straw skimmer this summer. Key stores in Chicago, San Francisco and St. Louis have put in orders for derbies. Hatmen figure bowlers will be proper toppers for fall because men's fashions will tend to become more formal, dressy...
Businessmen are often confused by the contradictory actions of the U.S. trustbusters. Last week they had even more reason for confusion. The Federal Trade Commission ruled last month that a merger would not tend automatically to create a monopoly even though it gave 45.6% of the household steel-wool market to one company, Brillo Manufacturing Co. But last week the Justice Department sued to break a deal that would give 21% of the detergent market to Lever Bros...
...weight of his damask robes and overshadowed by a huge silver cross, Geoffrey Francis Fisher intoned: "We humbly beseech thee that thy Holy Spirit may lead into truth thy servants the bishops gathered together in thy name. Grant them grace to think and do such things as shall most tend to thy glory and the good of thy holy church." Thus last week opened the ninth (since 1867) Lambeth Conference, which every decade brings together the world's Anglican bishops. This year's attendance: 72 Church of England bishops from Great Britain, 90 Episcopal bishops from...
Sunbeam gave up such giveaways because "they don't do much good." Motorola shuns them because they tend to cheapen the product. Lanvin Parfums