Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still held court at Manhattan's "21" Club, still darted down to Washington to offer unsolicited but hortatory advice to Presidents-notably Franklin D. Roosevelt. He turned his awesome energy to charities and humanitarianism (Freedom House, National Conference of Christians and Jews), made a pile in the stock market, served as a CBS director, and worked as an unpaid assistant to Bernard Baruch on the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission. He was still a conspicuous figure at any major race meeting (disgruntled World staffers had always grumbled that he edited from the track), and when New York State...
...divorce, National Newspaper Syndicate kept custody of Buck Rogers himself, who was created 29 years ago by Dille's father and taken over by Yager alone only in 1948. Dille will continue to peddle Buck's 25th century adventures to the post-Sputnik boom market of 154 U.S. dailies (TIME, Feb. 24). The new artist who will learn to live with President Dille's blue pencil: Murphy Anderson, longtime space-fiction cartoonist...
...fact is that Big Steel, which had planned to finance the bulk of its projected $665 million expansion program for 1958 (TIME, March 24) through profits and depreciation charges, has been hit by the profit squeeze and the inadequacies of depreciation allowances. By going into the public market, it will improve its cash position, make it easier to continue its expansion program without further dipping into working capital...
...began to slide early in 1957, several months before the recession started. "We had become spoiled," says San Francisco Retailer Harry Jackson. "There was very little urgency or excitement in our field until two years ago, because houses were going up so fast that we had a built-in market. The only creative part was modern furniture, and that was mostly Scandinavian...
...Style & High Price. One of the problems is that U.S. furniture is low on style and high on price. But there are deeper reasons for the slump, as the biggest furniture maker, Kroehler Manufacturing Co. (1957 sales: $90.5 million) learned in a broad market survey released last week. The U.S. housewife, reported Kroehler, believes that her reputation for "good taste" depends greatly on her selection of furniture. But she does not know for certain what "good taste" is, and the furniture industry has done little to help her learn. In choosing furniture, the American woman "must do credit...