Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical German university man is a war veteran, 26 years old, intensely eager to finish his education and start earning a living. What leisure he has, the student usually spends in keeping alive-rebuilding his shattered house, making forays to the countryside for food, trading in the black market. He is ten times as likely to have T.B. as in normal times; the odds are one in five that he is a cripple or amputee...
...subject, was elected rector by his colleagues. Once a professor is approved, he is free to say what he wants (in the Russian zone, professors must submit lecture topics for Soviet O.K.). Books are so scarce that Mimeographed lecture notes sell for sky-high prices on the black market...
...fact, the bottom has practically dropped out of the market. Pom pom is now available on almost any Cambridge street corner for just five (5) cents...
Where was the steel going? After investigating the problem for nine months, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works gave part of the answer last week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...
Wool does not come into market the peasant does not eat his own grain the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand...