Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over 20 who are not in the army to join a conscript labor force in a desperate effort to jack up the impoverished economy. In a fit of nationalism, he refused to devalue his currency along with France, and thereby priced Tunisia's products out of the world market...
...University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate anyone. White's secret is superb preparation: he spends twelve hours every day writing the script, building laboratory props and rehearsing with a 21-man crew. The preparation has to be right; a faulty wire...
Bethlehem has dropped its plan to merge with Youngstown Sheet and Tube because of the trustbusters' opposition (TIME, Dec. 1). But it still hopes to compete harder in the Midwest market, possibly by building a plant on its 3,500-acre tract near Gary...
...start and has already produced far more cars in the first four months of the 1959 model year than it did a year ago. Buick cut weekly production from 8,500 to 7,400 cars, laid off 2,000 Buick workers because field stocks are "sufficient for the current market...
...deal serves a double purpose for American by finding a use for the transports at a time when the market for used planes is sour. With jets and turboprops coming into service, every airline is trying to sell its obsolete craft, and prices are down sharply. By turning DC-7Bs into freighters with 16¾ton capacity and 360-plus m.p.h. speeds (2¼ tons more, 55 m.p.h. faster than DC-6A freighters), American not only avoids the risk of taking a big loss, but also gives itself a leg up in a vigorous young business that is just beginning...