Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturers this year has been minimal. As the Christmas rush went into its last hectic week, retailers had an arsenal of toy guns, helmets, boy-size bazookas and similar military attractions unsold upon the shelves. "People are sickened by anything painted in olive drab," said Harvey Cole, a wholesale distributor in the Seattle area. There was, added a competitor, just one exception. "Along comes G.I. Joe and his endless military gear and the parents rush the stores. You explain...
Chain Reaction. The Government estimates that of every dollar spent for food, roughly 39? goes to the farmer, 40? to the wholesaler and distributor, and only 21? to the retailer. Supermarket executives point out that their industry's profit margin after taxes has scarcely changed since 1960, runs a modest 1.3% of sales. But that widely used, poor-mouthing figure does not sum up the whole situation. By the more incisive measure of profit on invested capital, supermarkets earn 11.5%, almost exactly as much as the average for all U.S. manufacturing...
...reached full production only within the past 18 months. But Goodyear officials believe that the Italians underestimated the extent of their economic boom and are not geared up to cope with the market. Having been in Italy far longer, Esso is now second only to the state-owned gas distributor A.G.I.P., and has increased its sales nearly 20% over the past twelve months -thanks in part to its popular "tiger-in-your-tank" promotion campaign...
...were submitted to the Lincoln Center selection committee, and all were rejected as "not of festival caliber." Then it turned out last week that the selectors had tried to get one Hollywood picture, The Fortune Cookie (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau), only to be turned down by the distributor, United Artists. That prompted Cookie's producerdirector, Billy Wilder, to suggest that United Artists was "scared of the snobbish, intellectual types of audiences and critics" in New York. "After all," he quipped, "my picture was not made in Czechoslovakia...
...four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar and prep schools and then to Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated with a B average in history. He earned pocket money by working as a parking-lot attendant...