Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech produced an outpouring of support for Powell's position. More than 2,000 tough Limehouse dockworkers walked off their jobs and marched on Parliament with signs that read BACK BRITAIN, NOT BLACK BRITAIN and DON'T KNOCK ENOCH. They were followed by butchers from Smithfield Market, still dressed in their bloodied smocks. At one point, the longshoremen's protest tied up London's docks...
...loans to buy common stock as a condition of each transaction. Under current rules, lenders must buy stock (at book value of $130 per share) equal to 1% of the loans they sell. Fannie Mae's is the only stock of a Government corporation traded on the private market...
When West Germany's economy has a setback, most of Western Europe suffers because of the loss of German trade. Thus news that West Germany's economy is pulling out of its 18-month slump has sent ripples of optimism all over the Continent. The Common Market, which saw its members plummet to a record-low average growth of 2.5% in 1967, now predicts that 1968 will be a 5% year. And the 20-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which only last month suggested that its West European members might make 4.5%, is now happily reconsidering...
...their products on their own cats and dogs. At its pet-care center near St. Louis, for example, some 450 dogs and 250 cats slurp and chew Purina pet foods. Sniffing a trend toward "gourmet" dishes for discriminating dogs, Voila Foods for Pets, Inc., was founded this year to market burgundy beef in gravy and beef-kidney stew...
...even though everyone is talking peace and the stock market loves it and Averell Harriman is whispering and they are trying to find somewhere to talk and Irving Howe is happy, the war is not over--it is not anywhere near over. It is over in the hearts of our countrymen but not over in Vietnam. It will surely go on for at least two more years, and the situation at home will be much the same as it is over there: no one will want to take a chance on getting wounded or killed on the day before...