Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas of the U.S. where it had taken root, feverish armies of men & women talked of little else; they recruited friends and set out for pyramid parties nightly like grain plungers trying to corner the wheat market. Calls on some suburban Detroit exchanges rose...
Other problems pressed upon the President. The bottom had dropped out of the Buenos Aires stock market. During the week, persistent selling wiped out as much as 36% of the values of blue-chip stocks. Frantic brokers, encouraged by the government, called a one-day strike in an attempt to stave off the collapse. Next day the market sagged worse than ever...
Whether the symptoms were due to the patients' diseases or to the lithium chloride, no one could positively say-at the time. But to play safe, the FDA ordered the Foster-Milburn Co. and two other manufacturers* of similar products to take them off the market...
Stampede. There was also trouble in the cattle market. As grain prices dropped, cattlemen unloaded their stock. Kansas City's stockyard bulged with the biggest shipment of grain-fed cattle in its history-and beef prices tumbled. Choice grades of beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed...
Threatened by the spreading use of home freezing units, she is not unduly perturbed. She believes that the Lord will continue to provide, with the help of a revolutionary new product which she plans to market in a few months...