Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about as innocuous as the White Rock girl, wondered what all the shouting had been about. This week they will have a chance to see for themselves. Bought by Philadelphia Main Liner William Coxe Wright, September Morn was presented to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Current market value of the pre-World War I sensation...
...boom psychology that has nurtured high-riding confidence for more than two years is sensitive to the least faltering in the economic indexes. Last week there was enough evidence of a flattening out in the boom, added to the cutback in Government spending, to send the stock market spinning (see below) and to have an unsettling effect on businessmen and economists alike...
...business activity continues to taper off during the remainder of 1957-and most areas of the economy, e.g., retail sales, new construction, are still booming-it could quickly start upward again. A Government tax cut. predicted for next year, would encourage business investment. And any loosening of the money market could stimulate more home construction, trigger postponed borrowing by business and state and local governments...
...experts' uncertainty about which way the U.S. economy is going was nowhere more sharply reflected than on Wall Street's stock market. Like a ballplayer trying to work out his muscle kinks with knee bends, the Big Board bounced up and down last week; market leaders in steel, oil and aircraft tumbled as much as 2½ points in a day. On Monday, the Dow-Jones industrial average skidded 9.25 points to 478.95, for the market's sharpest break in nearly two years. Though intermittent rallies flickered across the floor at midweek, they could not make...
While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...