Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have some fun." In Wolverhampton, while Lady Macmillan unpacked the bags at the hotel, he popped up at a local Butchers' Association ball, announced that he could not "resist a good band." Next day, his pants rolled up, he tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot of ale. Near Shrewsbury he donned a pair of hastily bought gum boots for a plowing and hedging...
ATOM-POWER LEAD in race to supply world market with reactors has gone to General Electric Co. In key competition, with seven atom experts called by World Bank to help judge, G.E. won contract to build 150,000-kw. boiling-water-type reactor for Italian government near Naples. G.E. will also build West Germany's first power reactor...
Treasury had hoped that the high yields would check the slide and stabilize the market. If they do not, Government bonds will be in for more trouble when the Government goes to the market again in November or December with another $3 billion offering...
...retail sales in the first ten days of display, with production lagging a month behind 60,000 new orders. It was the fastest start ever for Buick. Cadillac also reported much higher sales and orders than a year ago. Pontiac hopes to boost its 5% share of the market by offering the widest wheelbase in the G.M. line and probably in the whole industry. This means Pontiac '59s will be roomier inside, easier to control than the '58s, hold the road better. Pontiac broadened its wheelbase by 5 in. to 64 in. v. Ford...
...United Nations General Assembly reverberated last week with protests from the world's tin-producing nations against Russian dumping of tin on the world market. Delegates from tin-rich Bolivia, Malaya, Indonesia and Thailand complained bitterly that a price slump caused by Russian dumping threatened to undermine their economies. The trouble was not confined to tin producers; for many a nation economically dependent on a single metal or commodity, fluctuations in price and demand have become an economic nightmare...