Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 14). Even farm papers tread gingerly about the edges of the current U. S. dairy muddle, view it with nothing more vigorous than plaintive editorials. Perfectly true had TIME chosen to mention it, is the fact that New York's conditions are typical of every major milk market. New England's producers are equally bitter but less vocal...
...London should join Paris in agreement to make the new monetary basis stable all around. Among economic experts agreement reigned that the franc should be devalued because: 1) devaluation of the currencies of other countries had had the effect of reducing the prices of their goods on the world market until these were disastrously under cutting France and ruining her export trade; 2) higher wages and vacations with pay introduced in France by its present Socialist leaders have raised production costs so much that the only way to continue making profits is to pay French workers the "higher" wages they...
...July Esquire Features, Inc. was quietly formed in Chicago, Esquire's home town. From the Chicago News went able, owlish Howard Denby to be the new syndicate's vice president and editor. Quickly Mr. Denby allied the Esquire syndicate with the News by arranging for it to market two News features, Howard Vincent O'Brien's column All Things Considered, and Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie's A Breath of Outdoors. Counting the old fashion article, the Esquire syndicate offers prospective customers eleven different features, to be purchased singly or in block...
...through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special offers of bread at two loaves for 12?, five pounds of sugar for 15?, potatoes at 2? a pound...
Said faithful Nephew Willett: "Mr. Durant is just as enthusiastic over building up the Food Market as he ever was over automobiles. In fact he no longer can bear the thought of an automobile...