Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partly because the market for good jazz singers-i.e., singers who phrase and improvise in the manner of instruments in a jazz band-is remarkably small, Ernestine has remained a critical success and a popular failure. She is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday. Ernestine invariably rejects the comparisons. "I wish," she says, "they would let me be just me." She is, and "just me" is plenty good enough...
...such as Bert and Harry Piel of Piel's Beer, had fallen into limbo. Stan was undeterred. Incorporating himself in Los Angeles as Freberg, Ltd. ("but not very"), he took a Latin motto ("Ars gratia pecuniae"-Art for money's sake) and put his talents on the market ("bizarre sales ideas, at a bizarre fee; but worth...
...Wall Streeter called it, "a runaway market-a panic of dollars into stocks...
...Aluminum production is being cut back because of excess capacity of 600,000 tons. Government "put" orders, which take about 200,000 tons a year from the market, are about to expire, releasing even more capacity...
...Zinc production is down from 600,000 tons a year to 450,000 tons. The Government is now out of the market; excess stocks of 150,000 tons would permit a rise in demand of 25% without strain...