Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seconds later President Eisenhower was back at his desk, starting one of his busier weeks after an upset stomach had laid him low for a day and set statesmen, stock-market investors and plain people around the world to looking anxiously toward Washington...
...folly." Herman Talmadge settled for less erudition and more emotion. Warming up to the spellbinding oratory that used to send his Georgia wool hats whooping and stomping, the freshman Senator spelled out what he declared to be specific flaws. "While many of our farmers cannot get their crops to market over muddy roads," said Farmer Talmadge, "we build a huge six-lane turnpike in Portugal to a gambling resort. We have sent opera singers to Italy and ultraviolet-ray lamps to India. And we have set up a pension program for overage Chinese Nationalist soldiers...
...food he eats. He sees a kind of order prevailing that crisis headlines had not prepared him for; he finds visas no longer necessary at most European borders, and customs inspections cursory. Currency restrictions are all but gone, and he no longer has to seek out the black-market moneychanger to buy his money at a reasonable rate...
...army-they surged through Algiers streets toward the Casbah. Coolly checking window stickers of parked cars, they passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down the screen in a Moslem cinema, burned open market stalls. One crowd of boys and girls invaded a butcher's shop, and with a meathook taken from it, hacked a Moslem to death in a nearby street...
...businessman seriously believes that Du Pont bought into General Motors merely to wrap up a market for paint. Although the Supreme Court ruled that by its working control of G.M., Du Pont had been able to force its products on the automaker (specifically that Du Pont had supplied General Motors with about 67% of its paint and finish supplies, between 38% and 52% of its textile requirements in the years 1946 and 1947), the two items together make up only about 2% (or $20) of an auto's total cost. Du Font's total G.M. business amounted...