Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge of black-market currency speculation would anger anyone living in black-market-ridden countries behind the Iron Curtain. Sabotage of Hungarian land reform? That should go down well with the British socialists, who approve of land reform. Conspiracy with the Habsburgs? That was a brilliant idea; it would arouse the antimonarchist elements in the U.S. Conspiracy with the U.S.? That was just as good; it would arouse anti-U.S. elements in Europe. Eventually all the Communist delegates agreed on a draft bill of particulars against Mindszenty...
...Celeste di Porto, the girl who used to push an old-clothes cart to the clamorous, ill-smelling market place, walked about freely, wearing beautiful dresses. Her neighbors soon noticed that anyone she stopped to chat with in the street was usually arrested by the SS. Soon they were convinced that Celeste denounced fellow Jews to the Germans on trumped-up charges. In the Piazza Giudea they said: "For every Jew, she gets 5,000 lire." They called her "la pantera nera...
Neither Antabus nor Abstinyl is yet on sale in the U.S.; both may be soon. A salesman for Antabus is expected this month, for Abstinyl "as soon as home-market needs are satisfied, probably in two months." Once the drugs arrive, the U.S. will have to tackle regulation; drinkers with officious wives and jokester friends could pray that the rules will be tight...
...adjust itself to a boom which had changed its character. It was no longer chiefly based on scarcities and stored-up war demand, but on full employment, and replacement demand, shored up by enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there...
Four for One. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that it would split its 11,158,207 shares of common stock 4 for 1 if stockholders approved. Though Du Pont kept mum on its reason for the split-up, brokers guessed it was to broaden the market for its stock, which has fluctuated widely on slim sales (day of the announcement Du Pont stock jumped 8⅛ to 179¾). It would also give Du Pont more common shares than any other U.S. corporation...