Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Food Future. Dr. Edward Frankland Armstrong, president of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, said: "Food is the first of all the weapons of preventive medicine and it must be the function of the agriculturists in the near future to grow complete foods and not mere market produce. Life is so complex that we have forgotten how entirely food is its foundation and mainstay. We must discover what chemical substances in food, if any, can give intelligence, courage and alertness to the inhabitants of a city. Can we feed to produce nervous strength and agility in the same...
...prices spurted past the U. S. quotation, rose to 9.95? per lb., compared to the current domestic price of 9.75?. As the price climbed, the foreign copper cartel announced that next month they would increase production from 75? to 80% of capacity. Purpose: to give a war-scared European market all it wants, keep U. S. copper men from cashing in on the higher price abroad...
...foreign copper, among whose chief producers are the Congo, Rhodesia and Chile. Purchases by Europe are currently holding foreign demand nearly to the rate of 1935, when the Continent consumed 1,215,000 tons, an all-time record. Chief U. S. copper companies to cash in on the foreign market are Anaconda and Kennecott, which operate big mines abroad...
...bulky, crinkle-eyed manager of the British-owned Delta & Pine Land Co.. whose 10,000-acre cotton plantation is the largest in the world. This year Mr. Johnston is getting 575 Ib. to the acre of "strict middling" cotton which he sells at a premium over the market price. He gets along well with his 3,000 Negroes, wants to keep them. Newshawks therefore crowded around him last week to hear what he thought of the mechanical menace. Grower Johnston was skeptical but not scornful...
Less popular brands are constantly trying to find chinks in the iron-clad hold which the Big Three have on the mass market. During Depression the 10?-brands found a chink, pushed through to a market that last year amounted to some 13 billion cigarets sold. Last week Philip Morris thought it had discovered another opening...