Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paavo Nurmi won it twice). For the first few laps last week, it looked as if they were right. Nurmi's protégé, lanky Viljo Heino, set the pace, with a fellow Finn, Heinstrom, padding at his heels. Like a patient English housewife in a fish-market queue, Zatopek stayed politely back in about tenth or twelfth place. On the tenth lap, "he picked up speed, pounded past Viljo Heino and took the lead. At about the halfway mark Zatopek began lapping the stragglers; Heino, unable to keep up, stepped off the red clay track, exhausted...
...only condition is that the buyers turn the potatoes into flour. To help feed occupied Germany, the Army has promised to pay about $7 a hundred pounds for as much as 448 million pounds of potato flour, about 30 times the normal annual output. With a highly profitable market thus assured, dozens of companies have started making flour...
...freeing the peso, Beteta hopes to make Mexican exports stronger competitors in the world market, perhaps stimulating Mexico's production. And the favorable position of the dollar would probably revive the lagging tourist industry. But while production might increase, Mexico's ambitious industrial expansion would be slowed down-perhaps a blessing in disguise, since it was getting too hasty to be sound...
...talking about food. At Uxbridge, where 289 U.S. Olympic athletes were quartered, their angry roars could be heard in the kitchen. The wrestlers were getting enough to eat, but the wrong kind of diet. One coach threatened to smuggle his he-men into London for a feed on black-market steaks...
However, a few industries were already feeling the effects of competition and the buyers' market. With the backlog in trucks about gone, profits fell for such smaller producers as Mack Trucks (down 50%) and Autocar (down 90%). Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's half-year profits dropped more than 50%. Bendix Home Appliances also felt a sag in sales, reporting a profit of $900,550 for the second quarter v. $2,565,-208 for the corresponding period last year. Profits of shoe companies were down; International Shoe...