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...addition to operating 371 supermarkets across the U.S., Jewel now serves those needs with some 240 other outlets, ranging from ice-cream parlors and drugstores to huge "family centers" selling food, pharmaceuticals and phonographs. Such diversification has brought Jewel healthy profits while a number of more tradition-bound food chains have lagged. Last year Jewel's rapidly growing, non-supermarket operations yielded 24% of its $1.25 billion in sales, and an even bigger share of its $17.6 million in profits. Currently in the midst of a threeyear, $100 million expansion program, the company is adding new stores...
Jewel also began picking up other supermarket chains. It bought Eisner Food Stores (downstate Illinois and Indiana) in 1957, New England-based Star Markets in 1964, and the Buttrey supermarkets in Montana and Idaho two years ago. Moving abroad, it acquired stakes in one supermarket chain in Italy, another in Belgium. Jewel has also sensed a future in smaller food-store operations, is moving rapidly into franchised "convenience" shops and "Chef's Pantry" stores in high-rise apartment buildings...
...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
...through a "Fastpark Jetrail," a monorail that will convey passengers and their baggage from an outlying parking lot into the terminal itself. Airlines are spending $150 million altogether on automated ticket-writing equipment and on a joint reservation system. Between the two, a potential passenger could go to a supermarket, bank or hotel to determine plane space and buy a charge-card ticket, then be checked in by machine when he reaches the boarding gate...
...world and they like to keep pretty much to themselves over there. They are very excellent people and have their own clubs and organizations. On the right hand side is Horti-cultural Hall where we have our flower shows. There on the right you see a typical supermarket and a donut store. Donuts are the local rage." Then the Sunglassed Voice told ancedotes about some Midwestern ladies who discovered the local rage and spent their entire vacation taking tours and eating donuts...