Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNGLE BOOK. Walt Disney's animated version of the Kipling children's classic is thoroughly delightful and clearly aimed at the below-twelve market...
AIRCRAFT Catching the Bus For months two old competitors have been battling with quiet intensity for one of the richest prizes in aviation history: the potential $15 billion market for the air bus, the oversize subsonic transport expected to be the domestic airline workhorse of the '70s. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. sprang to an early lead over McDonnell Douglas by unwrapping enticing plans last summer for a model (the L-1011) with twice the passenger capacity of jets currently flying short and medium runs. But last week, as teams from both rivals flew into Manhattan to make their final sales...
...immigrant from Rumania, used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month in 1956. Ten years later, when...
With that kind of philosophy, Carr isn't too worried about the vagaries of the market in the year ahead. In fact, he coolly predicts a 200% growth rate for Enterprise...
Climbing Rates. This year's spurt of borrowing has already driven interest rates up by ½%, to 7¼% for ordinary Eurobonds. To keep rates from climbing higher, some European central banks have been feeding dollars into the private market. U.S. corporate borrowers have kept the interest bite down to 5% by making their offerings eligible for later conversion to common stock. Though conversions dilute the value of shares owned by existing stockholders, the 2% difference in interest could mean a $6,000,000 saving over the 20-year life of $30 million of bonds...