Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...market nutria ranks somewhere between muskrat and mink-$1,400 to $1,700 for a full-length coat. But so far, domestic pelts have not been too successful. U.S. trappers do not know much about preparing them. The Wildlife Service hopes that the quality will improve as trappers get nutria-wise. In any event, the nutria will be a welcome immigrant. Unlike many furbearers, most of which (e.g., skunks) are carnivorous, its flesh is pink and good to eat. A carcass prepared for cooking weighs about eight pounds. Some compare it to rabbit. When roasted, say other connoisseurs...
...terms under which the University instituted the Forest was that it market its own timber to be financially self-supporting...
There was more trouble when Du Pont and other competitors raised their rayon prices in December. Bazelon vetoed any price hike for North American and American Bemberg. He ordered them to continue selling at 10% below the general market price. The irate directors resigned in a body...
...back too soon to please Philippines' President Manuel Roxas. Gold is the Philippines' most valuable export. Benguet now sells it in the Philippine free market for $44 an ounce. Though traders sell it outside for around $60, Haussermann doesn't mind. Along with fat profits, he likes the fun of digging gold. Says he: "When a man's 80, he doesn't have any cronies left. Work's my hobby...
Merrill Lynch reported that its customers range from Steelworker Clifford Blackmore of Pittsburgh, "an active member of his C.I.O. local," to Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Customer Hugh L. Gary, Greenwood (Miss.) farmer, got into the market to hedge his cotton crop just as Chairman Harry A. Bullis of General Mills, Inc. hedged to protect General Mills inventories...