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...KOMEKON, Eastern Europe today has economic union, while Western Europe still debates it. The U.N. last month reported with surprise that Eastern Europe's trade, "including the U.S.S.R., appeared to have increased tenfold since 1938," while Western Europe's was up only...
...quadrupled its gross to $80 million, and tripled its net to $3.6 million. President Wampler, 57, thinks that is only the beginning. In the next ten years, said he last week, air-conditioning sales should more than double; the number of houses having single-room air conditioners should increase tenfold to about 5,000,000. Said Wampler: Man will forget "the day when he used to wrestle windows up & down, fight with screens, adjust radiators and try to pacify furnaces. He will simply set a thermostat and forget it ... The non-air-conditioned house is today's horse & buggy...
...which claims to be the biggest U.S. retailer of phonograph records, reached its eminence with a strict policy against cut-price sales. But in half-page ads last week, it astonished the record industry by cutting prices 30% on "ALL MAKES-ALL SPEEDS -ALL SIZES." As sales jumped tenfold, Macy's and Gimbels reduced their own record prices by 30%; Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus advertised cuts of 40%. As some Boston retailers also slashed prices, it looked as if the price war might spread across the country...
...Then Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., makers of truck trailers, heard about the boy wonder and hired him as president in 1949. In a year and a half, Bunker streamlined Trailmobile's sales, services and production, doubled sales to $52 million and increased the net more than tenfold to $3,000,000. After Trailmobile was sold to Pullman, Inc., for $41.5 million, President Bunker got the call from Glenn Martin...
...young man who could answer straightaway, just like that, and with figures to support his answers." The young man was 24-year-old Theodore Houser, a merchandise controller; Wood made him his assistant. As a team, Wood and Houser concentrated on the tire division. In five years, sales increased tenfold, to twice as many tires as Sears, their archcompetitor...