Word: ling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...antipathy to the U.S.," I am sure [he gave no] such impression two months ago. He discussed U.S. aid objectively, as the way to prevent World War III ... If those around him are anti-American, we have only ourselves to blame. In 1927, when General Chiang married Mei-ling Soong, he wanted very much to visit the U.S.A. and Europe. Trouble with his Communists, which . . . has continued to this day, kept him from making that trip. We are just beginning to learn in this country what he has been up against for more than 20 years...
...putting himself in the customer's shoes-and giving the customer what he wants-Ling Warren has helped expand Safeway Stores Inc. into a grocery chain second only in dollar volume to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Last year Safeway rang up a net profit of $14.4 million, highest in its 24-year history, even though gross sales of $1 billion were down 7% from the year before because of a reduction in food prices and the number of Safeway stores. But Warren doesn't intend to let the gross stay down...
...critics of big chains Ling Warren has a ready answer: mass-buying by large chains in the past half-century has reduced the housewife's food bill by 50%, mainly by cutting out middlemen's charges. Says Warren: "The oldtime cor ner grocer was usually the underprivileged slave of intermediary dealers...
Drumming Up Business. Largest stockholder in Safeway is Charles Merrill of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane. But Ling Warren has a free hand in tending store. A onetime lumberman and veteran chain-store operator before he became Safeway president 16 years ago, Warren now delegates enough authority to his staff to work only 35 hours a week...
Novelist John O'Hara, also a special for Hearst, found the going tougher. For one day, he was reduced to telling how a reporter had lost a squabble over a seat in the crowded court; he neglected to mention that the reporter was O'Hara. Hearst-ling Inez Robb, doing her usual breezy job, apologized to her readers for one omission: she had felt she must leave the courtroom when the autopsy testimony got too grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint...