Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your fig leaf cover carries the encouraging business note that even if the movement toward disrobing finally catches us all, there will still be a useful purpose and market for the products of Textron's Talon division...
...page, 33,000-word narrative describing the Apollo 11 mission. In New York, the Times devoted 18 pages to moon news. Even with a press run increased by 75,000, the Times literally disappeared from newsstands Monday morning-some copies going for upwards of $1 on the black market. Both the New York Post and Daily News datelined landing-day issues "Moonday, July...
...bought by three banks: Credit Suisse, Union Bank and Swiss Bank Corp. Motivated by pride and profit, the three banks formed a syndicate a year ago and began to buy newly mined South African gold. They wanted Zurich to challenge London's position as the leading gold market, and they also figured to sell the gold at a lucrative markup. By carefully controlling their marketing practices, they could keep the free-market price from becoming depressed. They sold the gold to industrial users, private hoarders and speculators-but only when demand was strong enough to make the deal...
...beating the boycott, South Africa needs to sell even more gold to pay for its foreign purchases. Its officials have begun informal talks with the U.S. for some kind of compromise. Under one plan previously proposed by the U.S., South Africa would sell all of its gold in free markets but could sell some to central banks at $35 if the free-market price dropped to that level or below...
Under the proposal, the tax deduction on gifts of stocks and other valuable property to a charitable institution (such as a university) would have been limited to the original cost of the property, rather than to its current market value, as is now the case...