Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock market took its hardest fall since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955, and the biggest drop...
British Hints. Britain's suspicious mood reflected economic divisions as well as political differences. Watching the steady growth of economic ties and the nascent sense of "European identity" in the six Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle...
According to the story McCuistion later told his superiors, an English-speaking Turk, later identified as an agent of the Turkish Finance Ministry, charged McCuistion with black-market purchases of Turkish lire. When McCuistion denied the charge, five Turks began to work him over. For 18 hours he went without water, food or sleep while his captors questioned and "beat me unmercifully. They rabbit-punched me from behind and kicked me. I was afraid they would kill...
According to the Turkish police, the four sergeants among them had bought about $15,000 worth of lire at black-market rates, i.e., at 11 or 12 to the dollar instead of at the official 9 to the dollar. For this, Izmir's public prosecutor last week demanded up to 25 years for McCuistion and lesser prison sentences for the other three...
...full 1959 model year, which began last October, unofficial figures show Ford on top by some 20,000 cars. From January through July, though, Chevy is ahead by an estimated 29,000 cars. In July alone, Ford rushed ahead of Chevy, took more than 25% of the auto market...