Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inquirer beat John S. Knight's Miami Herald to the draw as the first U.S. newspaper to broadcast regular, daily facsimile editions to its readers. At week's end the Herald, whose first receivers were delayed by weather, got on the air too, for readers at a supermarket. The New York Times and a dozen other dailies were getting ready. They weren't quite sure where facsimile would lead them, but the press had once badly underestimated radio and television, and it did not intend to be caught napping again...
...still had his chipper spirits. But his Midas touch was gone. In 1936 he turned up in Asbury Park, N.J. as a lunchroom and supermarket owner. He plugged a dandruff cure on the side, operated a bowling alley in Flint. He still talked grandly of making a pile. But it was too late. Last week, in his eight-room apartment in Manhattan, Billy Durant, 85, died. Of the millions he had been "loaned" he left nothing...
...grocery was gobbled up by a supermarket. In quick succession, he became a singing waiter, a night-club master of ceremonies and a cheese salesman. Starting on Broadway in a play which failed to open, he proceeded to parts in six quick flops and a hit, Saroyan's Time of Your Life. This in turn led to his Hollywood start in a bit part with Hepburn and Tracy in Woman of the Year. He established himself in Wake Island. Greenwich Village is the first picture in which he has sung and danced. Next role: Captain Purvis in A Bell...
Stores will be classed as independent, chain and supermarket. To end frozen-price inequalities in competing stores and ease the small businessman's position, each store class will be assigned definite markups above operating costs. The markups are to be based on studies (made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) of margins of several thousand U.S. food stores. Independent grocers generally will be allowed wider margins than chains and big markets to allow for difference in business methods and operating costs. Similar controls will be extended to wholesalers...