Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slogan of Chicago's Lormar Distributing Co.-and not even Madison Avenue could have sharpened its message. Chicago jukebox operators, anxious to stay 1) healthy and 2) in business, bombarded Lormar with orders; a rival wholesale record firm in one year lost $800,000, or 90% of its trade. Principal reason: Lormar's was the property of Charles ("Chuck") English, a Chicago hoodlum and acquaintance of top mobster Tony Accardo...
...strong were Chicago mobsters in the jukebox trade that they even pushed certain singers. Record Distributor Ted Sipiora said that he was once ordered to stock Crooner Tommy Leonetti's newest record. Protested Sipiora: "It isn't good enough to get on the boxes." As his caller talked, he fingered and tossed "what we felt was a bullet," and said: "These things can be dangerous. They penetrate flesh." Soon afterward, said Distributor Sipiora, he began getting calls for the Leonetti record from operators who had heard the same sales pitch...
Strolling through a trade fair in Casablanca two years ago. Morocco's King Mohammed V paused before a model of a DC-6 airliner, sighed longingly: "One day I shall return." "Return where, Your Majesty?" asked an aide. "To Madagascar, of course," replied the King...
Castro was moved to action by the slump in the tourist trade and the angry demands of 2,000 card dealers, croupiers, cashiers, musicians, barmen, waiters and entertainers, all thrown out of work by the revolution. Senorita Pastora NúÑez, director of National Savings and Housing Institute (formerly the government lottery), called in the casino owners and found them willing to meet her requirement of seven weeks' back pay for all employees. "I highly disapprove of the way you make a living," she lectured, "but we are reconsidering our earlier decision...
Canada's increased reliance on the U.S. caused misgivings among Canadian nationalists. It might also aggravate one of the nation's more galling economic problems: the chronic trade deficit with the U.S. To ease the strain, U.S. defense authorities have agreed to buy more defense supplies in Canada. Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has already placed an order for Bomarc components with Montreal's Canadair...