Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful run in its history, with sales 50% ahead of last year. One puzzled firm reported selling 200 Egyptian camel saddles at $100 apiece last year, could not figure out what for. Said Ted Russell of the gift firm of N. S. Gustin: "I'm flabbergasted. The whole trend is amazing...
NEXT YEAR'S AUTOS will ride on smaller tires as all Big Three plus American Motors switch from the 15-in. wheel to 14-in. Chief reason: trend to lower cars, which will see some '57 models dropped more than 5 in. from '56. New tires will be 17% wider than present models so more tire will touch road, provide more traction...
Henry Rago, editor of Poetry, continued the early trend of the conference when he asserted that, "whether popular or not, whether solvent or not, the Little Magazine is free...
GENERAL SHOE CORP., one of biggest U.S. shoemakers (1955 sales: $167.9 million), will follow diversification trend by moving into the women's specialty store and jewelry business. For around $10 million cash, General Shoe bought 65% control of Hoving Corp. (1955 sales: $31.6 million), operators of Manhattan's Tiffany jewelry store and Bonwit Teller department-store chain. Hoving President Walter Hoving will stay on, plans no management changes...
CONSTRUCTION of private housing has been slipping in recent months, is now running at the annual rate of 1,100,000 starts, off 200,000 from last year. So far, builders are not too worried; the trend to bigger, more expensive houses has helped maintain a high dollar volume. Nevertheless, the decline has given a big boost to a little-known idea: trade-in housing. Detroit Builder-Broker Gordon Williamson, who used to sell cars in the '20s, says that real-estate dealers are today at the point where auto dealers found themselves 30 years ago; they are going...