Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance of 0.4% in food prices, caused mostly by fresh fruit and vegetable shortages after the harsh winter freeze in Florida and the Deep South. Food prices are not likely to head downward, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, until spring-grown fruits and vegetables reach the market in May or June...
...eyes, sabar is sometimes indistinguishable from paralysis. Sukarno was making mistakes, by leaning increasingly on the Communists and by straining his already weak economic position (last week the rupiah shot to an alltime high of 61 to the U.S. dollar- v. 11.4 for the official rate-on the free market). But it seemed clear that it would take more than sabar to bring him down...
...whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week, as his 100th catalog was being mailed out to 4,000 record shops in the U.S. and 37 foreign countries, Cataloger Schwann took a statistical look at the musical revolution that...
...range (1700 to 1900). Mozart (868 listings), Beethoven (865), Bach (650), Tchaikovsky (341) and Brahms (319) are the most over-recorded names in the book. CJ LPs become obsolete fast. A third of the recordings spawned in the early years of the vinyl decade are no longer on the market...
...Russians' campaign to capture more Western markets brought some cries of alarm last week. For many years Britain has bought 80% of its aluminum supply from Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd. Currently, British demand is drastically down, and Alcan's British market has dropped from 205,000 tons in 1956 to 153,000 tons last year. At the same time, Russian aluminum exports to Britain have soared from 197 tons in 1956 to an annual rate of 23,000 tons. Reason: Red aluminum sells for $510 a ton v. the Canadian price...