Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economy. Stand-by power to clamp on price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
...Prices, as we see them today, can't go anywhere but up. There is no place else for them to go. Prices are high-maybe too high-but we can't lower them without lowering wages and material costs. I wish we had a buyer's market today. We are living in a fool's paradise...
...since 1934, had also decided to consolidate their management and production; both will print in the expanded Journal plant. The Times will drop its Sunday paper. But the editorial departments will remain separate and competitive. Rising costs and falling profits had dictated the monopolistic step to divide up the market...
...year in low trade-ins, tips and doodad accessories. There was nothing illegal about the deals. But Committee Chairman W. Kingsland Macy trumpeted that the auto industry "must police its own backyard" or face mandatory price controls. To police the backyard, Ford had already fired 23 dealers for grey marketeering. Most carmakers, while holding their own prices far under true market values, had actively campaigned against it. This week General Motors notified the Kearney agency that its franchise was canceled "effective immediately." But automen knew that, controls or not, there was just no way of checking deals in which buyers...
Motormakers were far more worried last week over another question: How long would the grey market-and the sellers' market in cars-last...