Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the bid by the University to pay $1 million over the market value to buy the MTA lots on the Charles River, McNamara stated, "Cambridge is entitled to first priority on land like that, on which city loses a lot of taxes." The mayor said that the city would "make every effort" to buy the MTA land, if the Transit Authority chose to sell...
...wish to nominate Harry Schweitzer for Man of the Year. Anyone smart enough to live in New York City for $71.10 a month and save enough to make $22,600 in the stock market in seven years, can make a million in Texas in 90 days. Come on down, Harry...
...after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations. He urged Congress to abandon the parity formula-based on farm prices and farm costs in 1910-14, good years for U.S. farmers-and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
Harvard said that it would pay the current fair market value of the land--half a million square feet at about five dollars a foot--plus an additional $1,000,000. This extra sum is "to assist the trustees and the operating management of the system to accomplish the necessary relocation and consolidation of the facilities so as to free land for sale...
...About 25 years ago or so, I recall, a venerable Harvard graduate, T.S. Eliot, placed on the market a remarkable criticism machine that fairly revolutionized the literary business. This ingenious invention, which closely resembled an old-fashioned washing machine but was of course so very much more than that, could wring out any piece of English prose that a skillful scholar introduced to its slithery maw. The Harvard English Department, never remiss in its respect for venerability, kept the criticism machine in perfect working order, oiling it, polishing it, loving...