Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half over now, baby blue, The market too is moving under you. The evil that you do Lives on in your bones...
...read with interest your article regarding the aggressive market-development work of the H. J. Heinz Co. [July 12]. I am sure it would be of interest to your readers to know that of the 11.5 lbs. per capita annual consumption of beans in Britain, a major part of these are grown in Michigan. Michigan farmers, who produce 99% of the navy beans grown in the U.S., used as baked beans in the U.K., sold 1,091,000 hundred-pound bags of beans to the U.K. in 1966, the last year for which the figures are available. Since...
Because of today's declining market for fiction, says Fleming in this week's New York Times Book Review, writers are producing journalism to make a living-an advance over writing hack fiction or Hollywood scripts. Beyond that, journalism enables them to escape from their own introspection, the "feeling of feeding on one's own vitals, of using up and then repeating and restringing ad nauseam one's autobiographic experience." Journalism replenishes their experiences of the world...
There was, however, a disturbing paradox behind those rosy superlatives. If the nation's employment increased, its unemployment jumped even more dramatically. Though June school closings traditionally loose hordes of eager job-hunting students on the labor market, this June's joblessness rose a full 200,000 more than anyone had expected. It rose to 3.6 million as compared with 2.3 million in May. As a result, the nation's overall unemployment rate climbed from a 15-year...
...Netherlands, Italy and West Germany) agreed to provide Paris with short-term credits totaling $1.3 billion. At the same time, the Basel conferees sought to dampen gold speculation by devising a scheme by which South Africa is expected to resume its sales on the world's bullion markets. In view of all this, the price of gold on the London market last week went down to $39.10 per oz.-the first time it has dropped to under $40 in nearly two months...