Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist government banned all Christmas carols that mentioned angels or the Christ Child. At a fair in Berlin's Soviet sector, swings, merry-go-rounds and roller coasters whirled in a raucous counterfeit of yuletide gaiety, but there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups and plates to brighten her yuletide table, "another...
...cottonseed producers were happy. Southern Congressmen had pressured CCC to buy the seed from farmers at a support price of $46.50 a ton, higher than the local open-market price of $45 and under. Producers were, of course, the only ones happy. Processors, who turn the seed into cottonseed cake for cattle feed, com plained that they were unable to compete with the Government's purchases and get the seed they needed. Result: there was a shortage, though possibly temporary, of cottonseed cake and the price jumped from $60 to $68 a ton in six weeks.* This naturally made...
Though Wallach repeated his challenge to debate, he announced he would now also initiate an investigation into why the G.I. Bill should be authorized for St. Benedict's Center. He claimed that what goes on there "is systematized bigotry and in abuse of the 'free market of ideas' principle of Harvard University sad is not 'education' within the meaning of the Congressional...
Dunster last night entered the College publication market with the release of the first issue of a monthly House newspaper, The Funster. The paper is co-edited by Earl Kulp '52 an Thomas J. Wilson '51, and financed by the House
...Razzia" (The Raid), made in 1947, marked the return of the German movie industry to the competitive American market. The story itself is based on documentary reports of black-market transactions in Berlin. Director Werner Klinger took his camera crew to the actual locale to shoot the picture...