Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked an Englishman when he expected to get his new car, however, and he said 'three years.' He may have to wait six years, and as a result the used car market in Britain (there is up to a 100% purchase tax on new cars) is flourishing. I saw a 1936 Packard on sale for $4,000, and a 1947 Studebaker should bring around...
Upturn. Industrial prices were still edging upward. International Harvester boosted prices of its farm tractors 9% and Philco Corp. raised its radio prices 2.5%, even though the radio market was swamped with sets...
Until World War I, Pathé dominated the world movie market. Then the Pathé influence began a fadeout. But Charles Pathé got about $2,500,000 for the syndicate when he cannily sold out his share just before the 1929 crash...
...most of them second-rate. But it has done better with such films as Children of Paradise and Maurice Chevalier's Le Silence Est d'Or. With its dollars, Pathé was able to gamble that the Paris would give it a profitable outlet in the U.S. market. If the Paris pays off, Pathé may build as many as twelve other small, fancy houses in U.S. cities. Prosperity could not come too soon. In Paris last week, Pathé's dapper little distribution chief Louis Metayer said sadly: "We make more profits in Colombia than...
...Ministry of the Interior belatedly announced the arrest of three leaders of the Lutheran church: Bishop Lajos Ordass (TIME, Sept. 13), Baron Albert Radvanszky and Sandor Vargha. The charges: disposing of "several hundred thousand dollars without the permission of the National Bank, and [selling] foreign currency on the black market...