Word: markets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was even a short-lived UHF underground TV station in Ventura, near Los Angeles. It failed for lack of money but UHF holds the promise?or threat ?of providing inexpensive telecasting for a vast youth market...
Leisure time? "The 30-hour work week will not come. People will enter the labor market later and later as education grows. And they may retire earlier, but they will continue to take their benefits in the form of money rather than a shorter week...
...Another poor boy. Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, who started out as a government clerk, is one of the pioneers of the conglomerates with his Litton Industries. It was California that sent the aerospace industry rocketing; today companies like Lockheed and North American Rockwell command a major portion of the market...
...belie its mass-produced origin, yet sometimes possessed the ease and livability of an earlier, less industrial age. While the style of the day was mechanical, some of its most gifted designers, particularly in the 1920s, were craftsmen who produced signed, custom-designed work for a luxury market. Many were French: Silversmith Jean Puiforcat, Furniture Designer Jacques Ruhlmann, Glassmakers Rene Lalique and Maurice Marinot. In the U.S., Henry Dreyfuss and Norman Bel Geddes designed costume jewelry, radio consoles and jukeboxes...
...sale surprised the staffs of both papers, who recalled another statement by Annenberg in the Inquirer last February that despite rumors, neither paper was on the market. It also surprised Knight Newspapers, whose president, Lee Hills, emphasized: "Annenberg came to us. But why he did so and what was on his mind, I cannot say." The only explanation Annenberg offered came in a prepared statement: "With the passing of my only son, there is no likely possibility of family transference, and hence my desire to ensure a future ownership in which I have confidence." This posed more questions than...