Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late to Bed. The dispute between France and Britain over the future of NATO and the Common Market clouded all the President's efforts to renew communications with Europe. The war in Viet Nam also was very much on his mind. Even as he took off from Washington's Andrews Air Force Base, he was being informed of fresh Communist attacks and U.S. uncertainty over how the new offensive would affect the still desultory Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD...
Lovely Service. In Cleveland, the sect owns a string of stores with interesting names, among them "The Shabazz Kosher Market," "The Kaaba Haberdashery" and "Omar's Ice Cream Parlor." In Washington, D.C., where the movement has been active for 30 years, the Muslims own a bakery, a barber shop, a restaurant, a cleaning establishment and a printing office...
Somewhat Stunned. In the past several years, collectors have discovered that a good many of these early designers not only produced objects that were intrinsically valuable but incorporated superb designs that have not yet been matched. The result has been a spectacular boom in the silver market that has left even its dealers somewhat stunned. In the past four years, they figure, the average price of silver pieces has approximately doubled...
Tierney admits he is amazed by the fast-moving U.S. silver market. "If two people in New York decide to bid against each other for something," he says in wonder, "they don't care what they pay. That doesn't happen in London. Competitive bidding only goes as far as each thinks the value to be." Under his knowledgeable supervision, Parke-Bernet's volume in silver sales has leap-frogged from $388,320 in 1967 to $1,197,785 last year...
...Stock Market Gyrations...