Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for Christmas, President Nixon last week signed the Child Protection Act of 1969, a new law giving the Government the right to ban toys that pose "electrical, mechanical or thermal" hazards to youngsters. Now the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare will be able to banish from the market such presently available items as a blowgun that allows the darts to be inhaled, a soldering set that exposes a child to molten lead, a tot-sized cookstove generating heat up to 600"', an electric iron with inadequate grounding, a catapult device launching a bird with a sharp beak...
...women held more than a third of the faculty positions in colleges and universities. By the 1960s, that ratio had dropped to less than a fourth. The proportion of women will probably dwindle even further as the new flood of Ph.D.s enters the teaching market. In the 1920s women received 15% of the nation's doctorates. The percentage is now down...
Nickel, the lowly metal commonly associated with the U.S. 50 piece, has become a philosopher's stone for speculators. On the London Metal Exchange, the main international market, a pound of nickel last week brought $7.70 -about five times more than a year ago. The price was bid to incredible levels by the worst global shortage since World...
...pace of fiddle and banjo, and the generally unsophisticated lyrics grate on ears unaccustomed to the sound. But in the past year or so, music from Nashville and the Southwest has become more popular. Johnny Cash and Dylan, Glen Campbell and Roger Miller have shown that there is a market even on rock radio stations for C and W songs. And, as with most kinds of music, the more you hear it, the more palatable it becomes...
...every credibility gap, there is an equal amount of gullibility fill. This is particularly true in the art market, where the stampede for status and dollar appreciation has helped to enrich art forgers and unscrupulous dealers...