Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans are gaining on the British not only in Western Europe but, surprisingly, in Britain's own sterling area as well. The Jan. 1 opening of the six-nation European Common Market-with West Germany in and Britain out-should do more to widen...
...coffee prices has long been the dream of Latin America's coffee-based nations,* but the U.S. has shied away from coffee price supports as a nightmare just as dreadful as grain supports in the U.S. Lately, the U.S. has come to realize that quotas might stabilize the market, and prices as well, at no cost to the U.S. Treasury. In practice, the arrangement would work like the long-successful sugar quota system, which guarantees producing nations specific shares of U.S. sugar imports each year. By assigning each coffee country a sure market for a set amount of coffee...
Chile's main income source, copper, will greatly help Alessandri's program. Selling for 31½ ? per Ib. on the New York market last week, copper was a fat 6½ ? above last year's low-and each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
...Labrador, surveyors uncovered promising finds of copper, lead and zinc, asbestos, fluorspar, gypsum and uranium. Perhaps even more significant was the exploration of sites on Labrador's Hamilton River that could develop as much hydroelectric power as Grand Coulee and Hoover Dam combined. Next step: to develop a market for this untapped storehouse of kilowatts...
...always difficult to prove the need for another undergraduate course of instruction. As the Edsel recently proved, the product often creates the market, not the reverse. Nevertheless, many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...