Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaved prices to meet competition, notably that of the discount houses. But price alone was no guarantee of success in 1957's hotly competitive marketplace. With more choice than ever before, customers shopped for style as well. While G.M. slipped back from 51.5% to 44.4% of the auto market, Chrysler's jet-finned new models jumped from 15.4% to 19% of the market, and Ford's crisp styling apparently nudged it ahead of Chewy into the No. 1 sales spotlight for the first time since...
While production-line workers are usually trimmed fast to meet any fall in sales, the payrolls in service industries, on the other hand, are slower to feel an economic change. Every year, the service industries have been absorbing more workers to serve the nation's growing market for leisure and travel, to sell its growing volume of goods and keep its millions of gadgets in operation. The growth in service workers since 1950: from 26.5 million to 32.3 million...
...hold down the totals by cutting such items as the farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep surplus food from collapsing the market. At year's end the 1958 harvest of the winter wheat crop was estimated at a near record of 906 million bu., 28% above the year before and one more sad reminder of the failure of the farm program to cut surpluses. With revenues estimated at $73.5 billion-or less...
Wild-eyed with fright, a herd of 33 Brahman steers bellowed into Kansas City, Mo. last week on their way to a feeding lot to be fattened for market. After an emergency call for help to K.C.'s Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, the steers were as contented as cows in clover. The reason: Jensen-Salsbery's new animal tranquilizer made of ethyl isobutrazine (trade name: Diquel...
...cattle industry has long looked for a way to soothe cattle on the way to market. Distraught cattle pick fights with their neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...