Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changes in U.S. food growing, marketing and eating habits: less and less food is grown at home or near the point of consumption; more and more is shipped great distances, takes longer to reach the table, goes through increasingly complex processing to make prefabricated dishes or whole dinners for supermarket dispensers. Simultaneously, chemical manufacturers have been synthesizing new substances whose long-range effects on the human body are not yet known...
...circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, alcoholic beverages other than beer...
...smile stretching his brush mustache, his arm half-raised in greeting with fingers waggling briskly, Anastas Mikoyan, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, was busier than a checker in a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon. In the space of a week, he whirled through official and unofficial Washington, raced on to luncheons, dinners and informal question games in Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. In between appointments, he inspected stores, gave candy to a baby, shook hands along auto assembly lines, peered at new gadgets and chomped on an airline's free Chiclets...
...market also proved that the new economy is so big and so diverse that many industries once considered the driving forces can slow down without bringing a traffic jam throughout business. The tobacco companies, the supermarket chains, drug and electronics companies all had record or near-record years despite recession. Investors reacted by driving P. Lorillard up 175% to 89 at the high; General Foods went from 50¼ to 79½ Federated Department Stores from 30⅛ to 54¾ Pfizer, Merck. Schering, and Carter Products posted 68% to 114% gains. One spectacular performer riding a recession boom: Zenith...
...weeks of hard work. We need a hypothesis more probable than that all America has suddenly realized, in the last fifty years, the ultimate importance of Veritas. If we are to have the remotest chance of making sense of higher learning, we must recognize that a university, like a supermarket, does not do the same thing for its customers that it does for its employees or for the society as a whole. We must look for a hypothesis which recognizes the transient connection between the university and its students...