Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Children's books become more numerous each year, and each year they attract more first-rate authors and illustrators to the market. Some Christmas recommendations for children aged three...
Practical Answer. One man who accepts neither alternative is the Rev. John Schocklee, a priest in a low-income area in St. Louis. His solution: bussing slumdwellers out of the central city so that they can shop in a farmers' market. A more practical answer is the cooperative. Manhattan's Morningside Heights Consumer Cooperative, a clean, friendly store on the fringes of Harlem, not only offers prices as low or lower than commercial outlets but also gives a 4.3% rebate on each customer's annual purchases. So successful has Morningside been that another coop, in the very...
...promulgated" Elbert Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia" to the crew, instituted daily inspections, held a series of "all hands aft" services, where he quoted from Admiral Farragut and Stonewall Jackson. Since the Vance would be involved in Operation Market Time, the Navy's screening of Vietnamese coastal junk and sampan traffic for Viet Cong infiltrators, Arnheiter also insisted on a refresher course in small arms, ordered the purchase of a $950 speedboat from the ship's recreation fund. Though the 20-knot boat was supposedly to be used primarily for off-duty water skiing and swimming...
Inexperienced in the ways of realty, he built houses in Virginia, tried to sell them when the market was glutted, and went $100,000 in the hole. But he managed to convince subcontractors that they would get their money, then borrowed $700,000 to build an apartment house in Arlington, Va. This time he hit pay dirt, and in nine months realized a $200,000 profit. As the Government grew and the housing demand picked up, Wolman's fortunes soared. Just 16 years after arriving in Washington, he was worth $35 million, on paper. His real estate holdings stretched...
...people buy his product? As an exercise in camp? Almost certainly not. They seem charmed and disarmed by his sentimentality, his square hipness. What the McKuen phenomenon proves is that, no matter how sophisticated or cynical the times may seem, there is always a vast market for the banal...