Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downtown Seattle, tickets for the big game were selling for $40 on the black market. When 12,000 people jammed into the University of Washington's Pavilion ast week, they expected to see fireworks. It was the big show of 1949's basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament final beween powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky...
...stuffy annex of the State Department last week, tired delegates of 42 nations pushed back their yellow leather chairs, faced each other around a horseshoe-shaped conference table, and cheered. After eight perspiring weeks of negotiations, they had reached a world agreement to "stabilize" the price and export market of wheat...
...salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty years has shown the reserve clause to be the chief stabilizer in the big league player market. Although exceptions are needed in cases like that of Gardella, the reserve clause cannot be thrown out of baseball...
When the act ended, the Temple of Thebes shot 'way up into the air, and down came the market-place. It was just like shooting a bullet at the sky and having a ring-tailed pheasant come down instead...
...statistics in the box give the official exchange value in various foreign countries and the present rate if the money is purchased in the United States. Foreign currencies can be purchased at the Harvard Trust at the going U. S. market rate. Downing will be glad to help students planning a summer abroad work out their monetary exchange problems. Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas...