Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French are beset by Communist sabotage, and a black market raised to the status of a national institution. How hard it would be to make these economies jibe is shown by France's wine industry, which traditionally depended on exporting its luxury products to Britain. Austeritarian Britain can no longer afford them. Some Britons coldly suggest that the French would do better to pull up some of their vines and plant potatoes instead...
...Faces. Two little-known men, Dr. Roberto Antonio Ares, 35, and Dr. Alfredo Gomez Morales, 39, were made Secretaries of Economy and Finance, respectively. Unlike Miranda, both believed that the world market was a buyers' & sellers' market, not a sellers' market only. Miranda got the formal title of "technical assessor to the chief of state...
...last five years? Museum officials had little hope of ever finding out. But of one thing they were certain. Whether or not conscience played a part in the return of the painting, the thief had been in possession of a minor treasure that was not negotiable: the world art market had been alerted to watch out for Saint Thomas, and it could not have been sold without almost certain arrest...
Team Play. Four months ago, completing the second job and anticipating this year's big thrust toward a competitive market, he gave his corporate team a transfusion of new blood. Dapper, grey-mustached Harlow ("Red") Curtice, 55, the man who had put Buick back on its feet (TIME, Sept. 20), was made an executive vice president and became the man widely regarded as Wilson's heir apparent-a not entirely comfortable spot, considering corporation rivalries...
There was no hope for that until the buyer's market had brought something like prewar sales conditions. Charles Erwin Wilson did not look for it until the prices of late-model used cars were at least 25% under new car prices. That seemed some time off; despite the used-car slump, most G.M., Ford and Chrysler "new" used cars were still selling at over the list prices last week. Thus, most automakers thought that car prices would stay where they were for a long time. As for Wilson, who wanted prices to come down, too, he said...