Word: safeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Killion, onetime editor of the Sacramento Bee, later a legislative consultant for Safeway Stores. Killion went to Washington as assistant to the Petroleum Administrator for War, became Pauley's assistant during the 1944 campaign, later succeeded him as Democratic treasurer. In 1947, the Maritime Commission made him president of the Government-owned American President Lines at $25,000 a year...
...hamlets all over the storm area. Like the 343 who spent three days jammed in a tavern at tiny (pop. 4) Rockport, Colo, many went without beds and got short rations as supplies ran out. Fifty-eight stranded people at nearby Lone Tree fared better-drivers of two stalled Safeway trucks obligingly unloaded groceries and distributed them to the hungry...
...advisory board of 47 educators and clergymen will try to help the magazine aim a little higher than its biggest rivals, the A & P's giant Woman's Day (circ. 3,000,000) and 15-year-old Family Circle (1,200,000), which is sold in Safeway and other chain stores. American Family, a new version of an idea Mullen tried during the war, will sugar-coat its articles on family problems with cartoons, recipes, fiction and gossip about celebrities...
...that was a crime (and the court ruled that it was) then every other chain store and large industrial company which reduced prices by integrating its operations was equally guilty. (Indictments, almost identical with the one returned against A. & P., have already been filed against the Kroger Co. and Safeway Stores, Inc., next two largest U.S. retail food chains...
...hundreds of trucks rolling again. They averted an immediate food shortage, saved hundreds of thousands of workers from layoffs in building and other industries. But by week's end the pinch applied by the three striking locals began to take effect. Two large food chains (A. & P., Safeway) closed their 730 stores; about 1,000 other such stores were nearly out of supplies...