Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Camp & Campus. Jack McCloy's first steps were taken in Philadelphia where he was born in 1895 ("north of Market Street, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard...
...Miss Bell's English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...
...field of plants, Professor Paul C. Mangelsdorf has recently developed a custom-built corn for New England gardens and named it the Dwarf Harvard Hybrid. The corn, now on the market, is ideally suited to New England gardens and climate. Mangelsdorf's hybrid corns are proving revolutionary for the world's food supply...
...face of this optimism, some Wall Streeters wondered if the market might not have oversold its pessimism. Investors had not paid much attention to record profits in the last two years, because a large percentage of the profit went for company expansion instead of dividends. Now, as expansion programs were completed, more & more companies were boosting their dividends. And rising dividends, as Barren's financial weekly pointed out, "are hardly the hallmark of a deep depression...
Last year, when shirt sales began to sag, Phillips proved that he knew how to find customers in a buyers' market. More & more men were wearing ties with fancy, outlandish patterns that clashed with old-style striped shirts. Phillips switched three of Phillips-Jones's eleven plants to full production of pastel-colored shirts which would go well with loud ties...