Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing and a farm bill, then adjourn. Tired conferees met for yet another session. At 2:45 a.m. the housing compromise was ready. It wasn't much. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney called it "a teeny, weeny housing bill." It provided only for a government secondary market for G.I. mortgages, authorized veterans cooperative apartments. Wolcott...
...Majority Leader Charley Halleck said: "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word: "You don't overcome evil by evil. Let the record speak for itself...
...getting ready to broadcast four tabloid pages of text and pictures four times daily. In Passaic, N.J., Finch Telecommunications, Inc. announced that it is already manufacturing 100 transmitters for FM stations, 5,000 colorfax* recorders, which may be plugged into any FM radio. The transmitters will be on the market this week, the recorders (priced between $100 and $150) in two or three months...
...economy last week felt a strong new shot of inflation. The prospect of higher prices and steady profits-and the announcement of Air Force and Navy orders (see Aviation)-pushed the bull market to a new high. The parade was led by oil and aircraft stocks, notably Grumman, which felt prosperous enough to declare a 100% stock distribution (the stock rose five points in two days). The Dow-Jones industrial average...
...would in no way violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. "Size has significance ... in an appraisal of alleged violations," he conceded, "but the steel industry .is also of impressive size, and the welcome westward extension of that industry requires that the existing companies go into production there, or abandon that market to other organizations...