Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costs rose, sales had been dropping. Moreover, during the war, when Waltham and other U.S. plants were on war contracts, Swiss watches had grabbed a large share of the market. And Competitors Bulova and Longines-Wittnauer could import Swiss movements from their foreign plants cheaper than Waltham could make them...
Both record titans are completely agreeable to having only one type of long-playing record on the market, provided it is their type. The Mercury Record Corporation has already east its lot with Columbia...
...Germany discovered," Harris declared, "an excess of educated men and women on the market germinates anti-intellectuals among the disappointed and frustrated...
Lintner thinks that study of mistakes in past mortgage policies can forestall any impending ruin in the real estate field. When the last depression came on, he explains, bank lending policies were unwise. Heavy losses began to show up on real estate loans, and banks withdrew from the mortgage market. This was the time when risks on new loans were the smallest and the country needed willing mortgagers, Lintner explains...
Mather said that there is at present a bill submitted to the Massachusetts legislature which would restrain colleges from teaching about "atheistic communism." But there is a difference, Mather pointed out, between teaching certain doctrines, so that they may be compared with others, and advocating them. "In the market place of opinion," Mather said, "democracy will always win providing there is freedom of discussion...