Word: walgreen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upcurve in automotive and farm-equipment parts, chemicals, aviation components and oilfield tools." ¶General Shoe Corp. Chairman W. Maxey Jarman: "People are buying freely. Employment is good. Retail business will definitely be up this year. I can see no signs of a recession or depression." ¶ Walgreen Co. President Charles R. Walgreen Jr.: "There are no signs of a recession in the drug industry. We are experiencing the best year in the history of our business-both in volume and profits." ¶CJ Coca-Cola President William E. Robinson, just back from a swing through company plants around...
...small toys of polyethylene, a durable material that can be turned out up to 64 times faster than metal. Unlike most toy manufacturers, who virtually close down for six months when the Christmas lights go off, Marx sells 90% of his output to the big chains, e.g., Woolworth and Walgreen's, which do a brisk year-round toy business, and Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney, which order in huge quantities early in the year. Thus he cuts costs, keeps his plants humming and most of his work force busy three shifts a day all year...
Following the annual December meeting of the American Economic Association in New York, the economist had gone to his Taconic home to rest before delivering the annual Walgreen Lectures at the University of Chicago...