Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Federal Reserve Board last week came news that department stores started their Christmas season from the highest take-off point in history. Sales in the final pre-Thanksgiving week hit 182 on the 1947-49 index, up from 169 in 1958. Only 5% ahead of 1958 at the...
General Motors Corp., hardest hit, with 215,000 workers laid off and all production at a halt, was moving faster last week than even its own executives expected. G.M. expects to have all divisions operating at full speed by Dec. 18. Chevrolet plans to have 63,000 workers back, producing...
Demand for the new models is strong. One big factor is the powerful sales appeal of the compact cars, which account for 25% of total 1960 models produced so far. The orders are pouring in so fast that Ford last week made plans to shift over its Metuchen (N.J.) Mercury...
Such a time cut was forced by the changing role of U.S. women. Today's housewife not only runs her kitchen, but takes the children to school, picks up her husband at the train, belongs to the P.T.A. and a host of other organizations, reads the latest bestsellers, takes...
The average new supermarket now devotes 80 ft. of space to frozen foods, carries as many as 100 different cake, cookie and biscuit mixes, about 50 kinds of baby food, shelf after shelf of quick rice, instant salad dressing and other jiffy goods. The housewife can buy her frozen potatoes...