Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most popular items was a cheap, "hard" mattress, usually filled with fleas. Thus, back in the 1890s, the famed Paris Flea Market began...
...program includes, he said, "special instructions about the cooking," as well as "a new purchasing procedure effective this year." A special market inspector, he explained, examines meat supplies before they are purchased. In addition, Tucker said, "the dining halls have just been instructed to increase as much as possible servings of different sauces...
Criticizing Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's recent appeal to non-bank institutions to check inflation by buying Government bonds, Lanston blamed the market collapse on heavy Government deficits. "Our non-bank financial institutions could not possibly absorb more than a small increment of the annual increase in federal spending. Our non-bank institutions could not save the Government from its folly-if they wanted...
...Tokyo exchange set two records in a week. The number of shares changing hands rose by 30% during the week and the closing average price of 225 stocks hit $1.71, highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times...
...Check Trap. To foil bad-check passers, a fingerprint camera was put on the market by Identity Recorder Co. of Monrovia, Calif, for use in supermarkets and other big-volume stores. The customer rests his check and ten fingertips on the boxlike (18½ by 13½ in.) gadget and the cashier presses a button, getting a picture of both check and fingertips. If the check bounces, the prints are turned over to police. Identity Recorders are leased at $30 a month for the first machine, $6 for each additional machine. Cost per picture (after 1.500 free exposures...