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Although the company will be able to start up appliance production as soon as the strike ends, the big problem will be to recapture the slice of the consumer-goods market that has already been lost to competitors. Example: a Los Angeles chain that normally sells more than 3,000 Westinghouse refrigerators and laundry units a year is receiving only 35% of its normal volume, and is selling General Electric appliances instead. Nevertheless, Westinghouse has kept most of its dealers loyal by stretching inventory, stepping up advertising allowances, and in some cases even supplying them with competitors' products...
...than conference rules allow. Source of their incomes: a downtown "slush fund" administered by Washington's most energetic alumnus, Roscoe C. ("Torchy") Torrance, a printing-company executive and concessionaire. Contributions from Husky rooters fleshed out the fund, but last year its biggest boost came from a $26,000 slice of the take from a pro football game staged in the university's stadium. With capital sometimes as high as $75,000, Torchy was able to slip grateful athletes fat checks. Out of the fund came the price of plane tickets home, vacations for wives, the cost...
Take, for instance, the short-order cook at the "shack" in this picture, the one they all call Slob (Lee Marvin). He looks as if he never did anything more subversive than add a slice of forefinger to the chicken salad, but his name is Mr. Gregory, and his game is dirtier than his sandwich board. He steals U.S. scientists and ships them to Russia...
Down the street at Eisle's lunch, she and her husband described the candlelit hours as a little slice out of life in the old country. "Some of the boys had girls along," they said, "and those who did not wished they...
...College students who contribute a weekly, three-hour stint do clerical work, restrain violent patients, assist at emergency births and X-rays, comfort the sick and injured while they await treatment, and wheel off the dead to the morgue. Cambridge City Volunteers probably see more of "a real slice of life" than anyone else not formally connected with the medical profession...