Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designers are at work on the WS-110 chemical-fuel bomber planned as a supersonic successor to the B-52 heavy bomber. It has also won the design competition for a new long-range interceptor and is working on a jet utility trainer that may also find a civilian market as a high-speed executive transport. Said a top North American executive: "We were disappointed, naturally, but we don't have any doubts about North American's future...
...Competition. The U.S. decision was another in a series of developments that over the past few years has whittled away Inco's monopoly to 65% of the free-world market, threatens the industry's dominant producer with even more competition in the future. The burgeoning demand for nickel encouraged new companies to enter the field. Inco was turned down flat this spring by the Quebec government when it asked permission to develop a rich new nickel find in Quebec's Ungava district, but about three dozen other companies have won concessions in the area, including wealthy...
...Canadian price of 74? per lb. In fact, with defense demands taking less of the nickel supply, the U.S. is now diverting to private firms the nickel Inco has already contracted to sell the Government. From now on, Inco will have to take its chance on the free market against growing competition...
...this reason, moonlighting is likely to increase with shorter hours. For the economy as a whole, moonlighting helps ease the tight labor market, steps up purchasing power. And despite their campaigning, unions have not been able to whip up much enthusiasm for a drive against dual jobholding on health grounds. In Los Angeles this spring, a Western Industrial Medical Association declined to condemn dual jobholding, instead voted to give the problem more study after several members hailed moonlighters as heirs to the spirit of the nation's founders, insisted that hard work never hurt anybody...
Into the World Market. Bossed by Dr. Ulrich Haberland, 56, who ran two Bayer plants during the war and was picked by the British at war's end to direct the combine of Farben plants that now make up Bayer, the company is rapidly moving into foreign markets. Burgeoning Bayer has recently opened plants in Argentina, Brazil and Chile; it is building another in Mexico and, together with Farbwerke Hoechst, will add still another in Pakistan. In the U.S. it owns a 50-50 interest, with Monsanto Chemical Co., in West Virginia's Mobay Chemical Co. (polyurethane plastics...