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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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The first U.S. helicopter designed specifically as a commercial airliner last week showed off its flying ability outside the Sikorsky Aircraft factory in Stratford, Conn. For helicopter airlines, the S-61 promises to do what the famed Douglas DC-3 did for regular airlines: make hauling passengers a profitable business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Self-Supporting Helicopter | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Romney's is not the first made-in-Detroit rebate. In 1915 Henry Ford rebated $15.4 million to customers at the rate of $50 a car. The United Auto Workers union has suggested similar plans to automakers. Romney himself put one forth in 1957, but attached so many conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Romney's Second Crusade | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Man Who Sells Everything STANLEY MARCUS | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

HE pays his help well; a few Neiman clerks, working on commission as well as salary, can earn up to $25,000 a year. In return Marcus demands that they be unfailingly polite no matter how uncouth the customer may seem. He likes to remind them of the cotton-smocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Man Who Sells Everything STANLEY MARCUS | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

¶Henry Ford II, 43, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Co., reassumed the post of president vacated by Robert S. McNamara, who resigned to become Defense Secretary (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ford is filling the post only temporarily, touching off a guessing game as to who will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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