Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corn in the Crib. Hard-working Farmer Barbour's only worry was a glut that might force prices down. In Vincennes, they had quit picking peaches because they could not find a market. Other farmers across the U.S. had also become apprehensive of plenty. In California, pears and early Gravenstein apples went to waste. In Iowa, many a farmer's cribs were still crammed with last year's record crop of corn. This year's crop was nearly...
...Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to 40 to 45%, clocks up to 150%, china tableware 35%, chamberpots ("sanitary earthenware if of vitreous china...
...three weeks a "gentlemen's agreement" on the fashion release date, indignantly described the action as "a moral abuse of confidence." What worried the French designers was the prospective loss of thousands of dollars' worth of business: they were afraid that U.S. designers would flood the U.S. market with copies before their originals could make the boat. At week's end, the syndicate had reportedly decided on a stern punishment: banning Editor Jessica Daves of the American edition of Vogue and her staffers from future Paris fashion showings indefinitely...
While brokerage firms were hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...
...laws which "encourage small businessmen to take their earnings in capital gains instead of paying taxes on current income" ("you have to sell out"); 2) the problem of paying inheritance taxes. As the two partners owned almost all the corporation's stock, the shares had no established market value. A public sale, said Vandeveer, would have brought a price far below the company's worth as a going concern. Yet it was precisely Allied's value as a going concern which the Government would have used as a basis for inheritance taxes. Since these taxes "would have...