Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stock market's sag caps a dozen years of declining clout...
...Minnesota wheat farmer plowing up the south 40 in a Soviet-built tractor? It sounds about as likely as a Muscovite munching black-eyed peas-but it shouldn't. During the past three years, Satra Corp., a New York City-based firm that markets Soviet exports in the West, has managed to sell more than 1,000 sturdy Soviet-built Belarus tractors to American farmers. This may not be much when measured as a percentage of the total U.S. tractor market (1976 sales: 153,000 units), but it was enough to convince the Soviet state corporation Traktoroexport that...
...that, the American market is dominated by such massive and well-entrenched firms as International Harvester, John Deere and Ford, and Belarus will do well to meet its modest sales target of 1,900 tractors annually by 1980. It will be many years more before tractor exports have any perceptible impact on the Soviet Union's giant deficit in trade with the U.S. (more than $2 billion last year). But it seems somehow fitting that the Kremlin, having become a large and steady customer for American grain, is supplying tractors to help plant and harvest the crops...
...their fast disappearing dolce vita. With wage gains quickly eroded by runaway inflation and jobs in any case difficult to find, many workers have simply quit the official system to work in the booming secret economy that has come to be known as il lavoro nero, the labor black market...
...Teletype machine used to transmit news around the globe; of heart disease; in Canaan, Conn. A tinkerer as a child, Kleinschmidt was only 15 when he began work on the Teletype, an invention that eventually made him a multimillionaire. Among his 100-odd patented inventions: the stock market ticker, an automatic fishing reel, a police radio-teleprinter and a macaroni-twisting machine...