Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...host of saints that rain might be plentiful and the harvest good. One morning last fortnight, after a plentiful harvest, Castro loaded the first quintal (100 lbs.) of corn into a dugout canoe and, with his two eldest sons, paddled across the deep-blue lake to the market in Panajachel...
With the return of the buyer's market, every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...
Harris warns in his book, "This Market for College Graduates," that the siream of college graduates," wanting jobs is increasing while the number of jobs shrink. The book will be published today by the Harvard University Press...
With no warning to FRB, Transamerica President Sam Husbands announced a sale of 1,199,554 Bank of America shares on the open market, to lower Bank of America holdings from 22.8% to 11.1%. The stock sale, said Husbands, would bring in some $50 million which would be used "to liquidate loans" that were necessary to buy the stock originally "and to provide working capital...
...named "Trollope's Bazaar" and to supply high-priced fancy goods and foreign culture. But "every rogue within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market price, laying "gas pipes" that conducted nothing but a steady flow of hot air. So no one was surprised when one fine day "the old Trollope" gathered her bankrupt skirts around her "robust and masculine" limbs and fled back to England-one of the first, but not, alas, one of the last Britishers...