Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayor Fernand Lefort called in the Association of Flea Market Merchants, showed off designs for a handsome new Flea Market of 1,000 booths-even, for old times' sake, arranged in a labyrinth pattern of circling passageways, yet leaving room for five new housing blocks...
...merchants of the Flea Market last week were once again under pressure from the authorities to move. Their Marché aux Puces has grown into a cluster of six slightly separated markets, a jumble of tumble-down booths and rachitic sheds threaded by wandering, roofed passageways and covering an area of 150 acres. There are about 1,500 shops, employing some 10,000 people, with a yearly turnover estimated at $23 million-one-quarter of it in hard currency...
...there has been bamboozlement along with the bargains. Student copies of the works of famous painters have been sold to the unwary. And prices for authentic antiques can often be higher in the Flea Market than in the expensive antique shops of the fashionable Faubourg Saint-Honoré-in fact, canny antique dealers work both sides of the street. Sitting in their shop armchairs, slowly polishing their copper casseroles and warming pans, the dealers are well aware of the old truth that the more of a mess surrounds an object, the more a customer thinks he has made a find...
Golden Eggs. But the suburbs of Paris have slowly closed in on the Flea Market. Bulldozers appeared on the old Saint-Ouen parade ground. Four big housing developments rose 14 stories above the plain. Schools, children's playgrounds, sport fields, tree-lined avenues, a hospital annex are planned-and the Flea Market...
...regarded as personally incorruptible. He has long felt that Arab countries should share in profits made on their oil outside the country as well as in it. Last December he struck an offshore oil deal with Japanese oilmen for an "integrated company" that would produce, ship and market Saudi oil and split profits 56-44 all the way up to the filling-station pump...