Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TROUT, by Elizabeth Bowen. This is a rare commodity on today's fiction market: a novel of sensibility. The story is about a wandering, capricious heiress in whose wake many lives bob helplessly...
Avoiding Disaster. The do-it-yourself adhesive labels became so popular that twelve companies, including 3M and Johnson & Johnson, quickly moved in for a share of the new market. Hurwich realized that trying to keep Dymo a one-item company would lead to disaster. As early as 1963, he started to diversify into other fields...
...true that the physicians and surgeons we do have are poorly distributed, and that substantial gains could be made immediately by a more efficient allocation of medical personnel and facilities. That can only be brought about, in a system of essentially private medical care, by manipulating market conditions, by offering regional subsidies. That, in turn, should be done by the federal government, but, as we all know, the energies and monies of the federal government are being expended elsewhere...
Carl A. Kuhrmeyer, vice president of 3M's duplicating productions division, expects color equipment to eventually capture at least 10% of a fast-growing copying-machine market that already amounts to $1 billion a year. Despite its substantial head start toward that rainbow of riches, 3M has every reason to respect the competition. RCA and Polaroid, which are both newcomers to the duplicating-machine business, are still working on color-copying processes of their own. Then, of course, there is always Xerox, whose color copier, when it comes out, will almost inevitably...
...moronic. What she is looking for, as she darts about in her Jaguar or flits from London to Chicago or Paris, is a usable identity and some emotional connections. The story concludes melodramatically with a murder, but before that, Eva has adopted a deaf-mute child from a black-market ring and proposed marriage to a youth much younger than...