Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill continues the President's power to alter rates by 50% but changes the basis from differences in cost of production to difference in conditions of competition wholly within the U. S. market. Prolonged economic research would no longer retard the Tariff Commission's findings under the new plan...
...proposed to impose a 70% ad valorem duty on surgical instruments. A German lancet is purchased in Berlin for $1.50. By foreign valuation it would pay a duty of $1.05 on entering the U. S. and go into the domestic market at $2.55. A U. S. lancet of the same character and quality sells for $2.50. If U. S. Valuation were applied to the German lancet on import, it would have to pay a duty of $1.75, giving it a sale price...
Said President Hines: "The industry is fully alert to the necessity for maintaining cotton in a prominent position in the high-styled field in order to keep this market in advance of the volume market ... I believe that the industry appreciates the results of these special [Institute] efforts . . . and will wish to continue and enlarge the program...
While U. S. automobile men were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...
STUDIES OF SAVAGES AND SEX-Ernest Crawley-Button-($4.50). Although this is primarily a scholarly book, it contains points such as the following for man-in-the-street's consideration: "The attaching of a market-value to a woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity...