Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the Assembly's last meeting. Next February it will be replaced by a new parliament with authority over the Common Market and Euratom projects too. Said Pope Pius XII to the delegates: "The Coal and Steel Community has placed Europe on a new road leading to infinite promise...
...economic base and achieve self-sufficiency, built factories by decree, not in answer to economic demand. In eight years Dictator Juan Peron transformed Argentina's economy from predominantly agricultural to predominantly industrial, but left it saddled with inefficient plants making products that are priced out of the market...
...Dolphins!" Departing radically from the script, the male extras quickly put to sea in Huston's rented sampans while the women took off their film kimonos and excitedly awaited the return of their men. Net catch for the inscrutable villagers: 270 dolphins worth $3,500 in the seafood market. Net loss to the scrutable Huston (who filmed the unscheduled slaughter for the celluloidal hell of it): four men's wigs, a half day and $15,000 in shooting time...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries last week staggered even old-hand auctioneers. The first night, bids for paintings rolled up an alltime high of $1,708,500.* Total for the three-day auction: $2,221,355, a sum that blew the roof right off the rising art market...
...soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed to smuggle out 38 paintings by way of Portugal. In the U.S. he bought paintings by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin at the bottom of the wartime market. Said a Frenchwoman who knew him well, "Georges, intelligent? He invented the word...