Word: ending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will the tide of new products ever ebb? No, says Edward H. Meyer, president of Grey Advertising. "The products will continue to come; there's no end to that at all." That view is questioned by Wayne Jervis, formerly In-terpublic's new-product chief, who now heads his own product-development agency. "We are going through a phase when there are too many new products -some perhaps that are not meeting real needs," he says. Considering the crushing rate of new-product failure, that is indeed an understatement...
Rumors abound that the pride of the merchant fleet, the United States, will be mothballed at the end of the year, when its annual Government subsidy of about $12 million runs...
...1970s. Maritime Administrator Andrew E. Gibson said last week that the Nixon program would support the building of new ships "designed for production, not as works of art." Though Gibson agreed with the proposition that efficient ships can compete internationally without an operating subsidy, he admitted that the end of Government aid was far away. Last year the Government spent $206 million to subsidize the merchant fleet...
...wasn't. As Mishkin kept telling the theater owner at the other end of the table: "When we play, we play. When we work, we work." But the man persisted: "Lee, how about us all doin' a little quail huntin'? We'll take some baby dolls along, drink a little whisky, do a little gamblin'." "No drinking," Mishkin said...
...Battle of Britain is one of those inane, stiff-upper-lip war flicks that attempt to make up with historical accuracy what they lack in dramatic impact. There are lots of old airplanes, Spitfires, Messerschmitts and the like, and a couple of spectacular dogfights. At film's end, there is even a list of the dead and wounded on both sides, flashed onscreen like a kind of post-game scoreboard. Additionally, an all-star cast is recruited to man the planes and give some faint semblance of life to the statistics. This presents its own problems, however: once they...