Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate reason for the jump to last week's peak was the rush to borrow Eurodollars for conversion into German marks. Big-time speculators found it much easier to borrow on the Eurodollar market than to dig into their own pockets for the money...
...Sherman, most U.S. investors are convinced that war is something less than heaven. Last week, ignoring the normally bearish portents of monetary upheavals abroad and higher interest rates at home, Wall Street's customers seized on rumors of brightened peace prospects in Viet Nam to continue the stock market's best rally in more than a year. The Dow Jones industrial average rose four points to close at a year's high of 961.61. All told, the 38-point rise since late April was the Dow's best performance since 13 months ago-when peace talk...
Switching to catfish makes sound financial sense. The fish require less care than crops and bring their growers a fatter price per pound (400 to 500 live weight) than beef, pork or poultry. One of the first to discover the market was Edgar Farmer, 57, who stocked a pond ten years ago with a dozen "channel cats" that he had caught with a bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like...
...trundle them to the supermarket or station and to be used for occasional longer trips. As the initiate knows, the Mach I is neither spaceship nor sound barrier. It is a hyped-up Mustang-one of Ford's fast-moving contenders in what Detroit calls "the muscle-car" market, where the best sales pitch is neck-snapping acceleration. The new Mach I, which can be ordered with an engine of up to 335 h.p., already accounts for 22% of all Mustangs sold. There are many other muscle cars, and they now constitute at least 5% of the entire...
...country estate with President Urho Kekkonen and Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto of Finland. Their decision-to push ahead with the year-old negotiations to bring Nordek into being-reflected a realization that, despite Charles de Gaulle's departure, Europe is far from becoming one grand market...