Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Market Uplift...
...bell-shaped weight at the other end. The object is to twirl the string with one foot and hop with the other; well-coordinated youngsters can now twirl three Footsees at once-one on each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four years ago. Robert Asch, president of Twinpak Ltd. of Montreal, which makes the Footsee, is sure the game is far older; he got the idea while watching...
...launched the Frisbee and last year revived the Hula Hoop as the Shoop Shoop, does not intend to be caught napping. For Frisbee flyers, whose six-month-old International Frisbee Association now totals 20,000 members, a new indoor model, only 3¾ in. in diameter, is on the market, and has already matched the sales of the conventional model. Latest of Wham-O's line is the Whirlee Twirlee. Something new? Not if you remember the way vaudeville jugglers used to spin plates at the end of a stick. In fact the company had some success with...
Welcome as such statements were, Wall Street showed much more excitement over what brokers were calling "the Nixon market." Reflecting belief that a Republican Administration would be good for corporate profits, stock prices rose last week to their highest level in two years amid heavy trading volume. Continuing a two-month rally, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed...
Last week Nixon also aimed three specific appeals at the business community. He accused the Administration, which is investigating the conduct and cost of stock-market trading, of imposing "heavyhanded, bureaucratic regulatory schemes" on the securities industry, and indicated that, if elected, he would get rid of them. He promised to eliminate "self-defeating controls" over foreign investment by U.S. business. And he pledged "swift action" to end congestion in the nation's airways, which he blamed on "years of neglect at the highest levels of Government...