Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forth across the continent so much that they began calling the foundation the "Fund for the Advancement of Aviation." To make matters worse, Hoffman infuriated Henry Ford II by inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered him to move Itching Palms to Madison Avenue. Hoffman became board chairman of his brain child, the Fund...
...already based solidly on the requirements of more than 100 industries, ranging from glass to pesticides, fertilizers to soaps. And further uses for boron are being found every day. Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) has developed a boron additive for gasoline to provide better economy and lower engine maintenance, is marketing it through Richfield Oil Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Though boron for gasoline this year would account for only $500,000 of all borax sales, U.S. Borax hopes to sell the boron additive directly to dealers, swell boron gas into a healthy market. Boron is also being carefully researched...
TRUCK DEAL will turn over Reo Motors Inc., owned by Detroit's Bonn Aluminum & Brass Corp. (1956 sales: $51.6 million), to White Motor Co. (sales: $207.4 million), boost White's share of heavy-duty truck market from...
Artificial Market. If this is done for the next two or three years, Fleming said, American cotton growers will be able to "feel their way" back into world competition. Making the outlook most encouraging, he said, are two facts. One is the continuing expansion of industry in the old Cotton Belt, which is absorbing farmers freed from the hardscrabble, impoverished existence of old-style farming. The other is the competitive advantage of better mechanization enjoyed by American agriculture over foreign growers. With foreign living standards rising rapidly, aid Fleming, the market for cotton is increasing at the rate...
Warned Fleming: "The question for American growers is whether to plan to serve the increased market, increasing their volume of operations but accepting lower prices, or abdicate it and reconcile themselves to a declining business within a sheltered artificial market, provided the rest of their countrymen are willing to bear the cost of sheltering...