Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, prices had been held down by a combination of price fixing and subsidies. Bread was price fixed, so were cooking oils and fats, milk, soap and, in Buenos Aires, meat. But to entice these products into the open market, the government repeatedly had to increase its subsidies to the producers...
...case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing, new transportation systems must be built to get the produce to market...
...will use much of the stone himself in a Philadelphia housing project that he is building as a sideline to his auto business. The rest, he figures, will find an easy market: the Italian stone is far less expensive than U.S. cinder block...
Last week, Cincinnati's Powel Crosley Jr. became the first postwar U.S. auto manufacturer to make a deliberate play for the hot-rod market. He introduced a two-seater "Hotshot" Crosley roadster, looking like a dime-store version of the once-famed Stutz Bearcat (see cut). Although Crosley estimates that not more than one out of 100 owners will use the Hotshot as a racer, he has made it easy for them to do so. Windshield, lights, bumpers and top can be stripped off in a few minutes, readying the car for road or track racing. Its overhead-valve...
...potential television market? One year ago, a Manhattan advertising agency, Newell-Emmett Co., picked a middle-sized city about 40 miles from Manhattan, dubbed it "Videotown" to keep its identity a secret, began keeping tab on the buying habits of its 40,000 citizens...