Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of counters, to snack bars, post offices and a special "nursing room." Soon the shabby housewives of Moscow will pour in, carrying the brown shopping nets which are standard through all Russia. They will be attracted by G.U.M.'s huge ads: "Whatever the Stomach, Body, or Mind demand, G.U.M. will supply," by the government's elaborate promises of a new "Abundance," and by an elemental canniness that has taught them to get in early, because there is never enough to go around...
Producer Sam Goldwyn, who was prepared to spend $250.000 for the film rights to Charles A. Lindbergh's book The Spirit of St. Louis, called the whole thing off. What nettled Goldwyn was Author Lindbergh's demand for a veto in the choice of actors, writers and director...
...million in 1948 to 14 million, and employment and production are down. But the slump was not caused by foreign imports; they have increased by only 2,000,000. Said the President: "It seems apparent that the major part of this loss has been due to decline in consumer demand . . . In recent years, there has been a clear and sharp decrease in pipe-smoking in this country...
Thus, the American market seems treacherously unstable to foreigners. What is in demand one day may not be the next. Therefore, many foreign producers are reluctant to expand their sales in the U.S., even when there is a strong demand for their products. One Dutch manufacturer of tea sieves, whose products made a big hit with U.S. housewives, nevertheless refused to enlarge his production for fear the market might dry up. Many fail to expand because their sights are set lower than U.S. manufacturers, and the small market they already have seems big to them. Others, not without reason, believe...
Houses for $850. Though Comino has continually enlarged his London plants, built a new factory in Belgium and licensed Chicago's Acme Steel Co. to manufacture Dexion in the U.S., he has never-been able to catch up with demand. It will take years to exploit Dexion's biggest market, housing. A three-room house, like the experimental models shipped to Greece, could be erected in 160 man hours by inexperienced labor, using tin roofs and asbestos-board walls on a Dexion frame. Comino believes that he could sell it profitably in England for only $850. Using such...