Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Traffic on the nation's three helicopter airlines in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, which shuttle passengers from one airport to another and from outlying airports to downtown areas, has steadily increased from only 152,000 passengers in 1957 to 461,919 in the first ten months of...
The S-61 seats 25 passengers (v. twelve for the Sikorsky S-58 now in use in Chicago and Los Angeles, and 21 for the old DC-3), has an estimated direct operating cost of 8? per seat mile (v. 16? per seat mile for the older ships), cruises at...
FOR the man with only $250,000 to spend on Christmas presents this year, there is a store dedicated to providing a wide selection of worldly goods tailored to his budget: Neiman-Marcus of Texas. There he may very well be waited on by the saturnine president of the company...
In the oil-welling land of the big spenders, Marcus has sought not only to create a store devoted to luxury but to provide standards that his often newly rich customers can rely on. Operating a store that is in many ways comparable to the best in Manhattan, he has...
THE idea of a luxury store in a cattle-and-cotton city of 86,000 seemed slightly pretentious when Neiman-Marcus was founded in 1907 by Stanley's father, Herbert Marcus, and his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Neiman. It was doing all right in 1926...