Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play a little numbers game at our house," explained an Atlanta housewife last week. "The kids compare the prices of groceries in the market with the ones stamped on the canned soups and packages at home, to see how much they've gone up. It's a game, and about as much fun as Russian roulette...
...essentials of their European Free Trade Association (TIME, July 27). Member nations hope to have the final draft by October and to announce their first common tariff reductions, to be effective next July. They made no bones about their real purpose: "To facilitate negotiations" with the bigger, booming Common Market Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Benelux) and thus head off a permanent division of European trade...
Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. sympathetic to the cause of freer trade everywhere, promised Denmark not to discriminate against it for joining the Outer Seven. Germany hopes in time to put pressure on France to widen the Common Market club. But as Erhard points out, the Outer Seven is "dangerous medicine," even though "chances are good that it will work." And, as one of Erhard's aides adds: "Separate groups tend to form habits, generate loyalties, encourage parochial thinking. On the other hand, they can produce creative friction...
...Black Thursday, 1929, the day the stock market collapsed, Wall Street was a scene of chaos, and many a suddenly paupered stockholder felt that the end of the world had come. One among them had a different thought; he dashed off to a friend's studio to make a lithograph of the disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints...
...with Jeremiah, Isaiah. Amos, and the Second Coming . . . When the Baptist Sunday School teacher is puzzled by some involved Biblical problems he immediately runs over to Goldstein's to get the information, right from the original source . . . Poor Goldstein; with the bottom falling out of the textile machinery market, this fellow keeps worrying him about the Ark of the Covenant...