Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre, who was visiting Spain last week, a Madrid policeman said: "Things are bad and getting worse. We're getting into an inflationary situation. I have a wife and child, and my pay is 14 pesetas [about 50? on the free market] a day. I can't manage much longer. I hope to go to France. I hate to leave Spain, but I'll go anywhere I can make a living...
...because of a drop in exports. Many Kentucky and West Virginia mines had cut back to a three-or four-day work week. Said Bert A. Astrup, assistant general sales manager for Shell Oil Co.: "We've rounded the Horn and we're in a buyers' market...
...buyers' market in oil, textiles, washing machines, etc. was not a blessing to all. It had brought surpluses and layoffs in many an industry. U.S. employment in November had dropped below 60 million (to 59.8 million) for the first time in five months. Part of the drop was due to greater industrial efficiency. Since the first of the year, Western Electric Co. alone had cut back its work force by 25,000. In Connecticut, layoffs were so widespread that the Stamford-Greenwich Manufacturers' Council called a conference to discuss means of reducing them...
...belong to the stable of Bill Josko, a veteran Santa Claus with 12 years of experience, who has virtually cornered the market for Santas among the larger department stores of Boston and other Eastern cities. Josko got the idea of organizing a string of well-trained, sober Santas, after brooding for years over the fact that they were mostly recruited by harried store managers from the ranks of down-and-out bums...
Merchandising in the Stomach. In Los Angeles, as in Manhattan, Ohrbach's has expensive as well as bargain dresses -up to $385. But they still cost far less than similar models in most shops. To get a mass market, top designers gladly sell their clothes to Ohrbach's, but make sure their labels are removed...