Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop this stuff is to set your store up in a nudist colony," said a Seattle superman, by now suspicious of just about any housewife who carries a big handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a warm day. In many U.S. cities, market cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages (packaged meat), bulky, many-pocketed coats, stretch socks...
MARRIAGE SLOWDOWN will nip market for houses, furniture, etc. Dropping steadily since last August, marriage rate this year is about 10% below year ago. Reasons: low birth rate of Depression 1930s combined with today's economic slump and living-cost spiral...
...state in which economics is second to politics. Russia can overbid for raw materials, ignore market prices to compete, even take heavy losses to win friends. Says Central Intelligence
Agency Director Allen Dulles: "They will buy anything, trade anything and dump anything if it advances Communism or helps to destroy the influence of the West." Last month, for example, Russia moved heavily into the British aluminum market with lower prices (TIME, April 7). Russia has also sold tin, zinc and soybean products below market prices, is selling trucks, autos and machinery in the Middle East at prices the West cannot match...
With the world commodity market now glutted, the situation is made to order for the Soviets. Iceland made a trade deal with Russia to dispose of its surplus fish, Burma to dispose of its surplus rice. Such countries often accuse the U.S. of damaging their economies by sales of its surpluses on the world market; less well known is the fact that Russia often puts the commodities it takes in trade right back on the market, as it did with Egyptian cotton, Turkish tobacco, Syrian wheat...