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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop illustrious again. Says Foote of the Regimen affair: "That hurt us. We lost accounts totaling $2,500,000 as a result of the conviction, and we found it a handicap both in attracting business and people." Today Emerson Foote, Inc.'s billings are $9,100,000 v. $14 million at Kastor Hilton's peak...
...terms of assets, and No. 1 in the insurance field for nearly half a century, lost honors to rival Prudential Insurance Co. of America. By the margin of $83,020,000, the Pru outdid its competitor, ended the year with assets of $23,594,698,000 v. $23,511,678,000 for the Met. Part of the gain was due to the fact that Prudential got a better return on investments...
...irreverance. To render the play in early twentieth century American would have been a gray business: nothing is as dead as dead slang. Senelick's greatest triumph is his version of a Spaniard (Daniel Deitch) speaking English. Gerund endings are assiduously dropped where they should be; b's and v's are assaulted with appropriate force...
A.M.C.'s main target is the Volkswagen, which accounted for 30% of the 1.4 million compacts sold in the U.S. last year. Getting the new campaign off to a start, Chapin pointed out that the Rambler is not only bigger (six v. four passengers) and more powerful (128 h.p. v. 53 h.p.), but, "in terms familiar to every housewife, costs only 69? a pound compared to more than 90? for the Volkswagen...
...Last week, in an effort to attract some of these funds, President Johnson and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler launched a campaign to sell "Freedom Shares." To be sold only to people who buy regular Government bonds, the new notes will mature in 4½ years and pay 4.74% v. 4.15% and 7 years for a Series E bond...