Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Dozens of other U.S. banks are beginning to automate. Chase Manhattan, the nation's second largest commercial bank, will soon automate its check-processing procedure, expects to save 20% on clerical costs. Chicago's Merchandise National Bank will start phasing in a duplicate of the ERMA system by...
For some depositors, all this efficiency will have one drawback. Since the clearing of checks will be greatly speeded up, it will no longer be possible to write out a check and wait for a day or two to deposit the cash to cover it.
Rarely has the discerning palate been assailed by a less pretentious offering: a raw string bean, pickled in vinegar and dill. Yet the Dilly Bean, touted as "the best idea since the peanut and the pretzel," last week had captured the fancy of cocktail-hour nibblers on the East and...
The Dilly Bean's success is a tribute to the power of advertising. Armed with her mother's Southern recipe for pickled beans, a North Carolinian named Sonya Hagna, 24, decided to give up her New Jersey schoolteaching job in 1958 and take a fling at pickling. She...
Before long, New Yorkers were reading such whimsical ads as "Diane Shugrue ate 3,925 Dilly Beans last month. She didn't gain an ounce. (Is she tired of Dilly Beans!)" Radio listeners were subjected to a barrage of zany plugs interspersed with 20 seconds of weird "music to...