Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many businessmen simply ignore foreign requests for information and prices on their products. The Commerce Department had to plead with one St. Louis machine-tool maker to answer repeated inquiries from a British company (in the end, he made a sale). One machinery man- ufacturer in the state of Washington still stubbornly refuses to answer an inquiry from Australia. And only after Commerce Department urging did a Minneapolis firm reluctantly agree to sell its special lubricating oil to Nigeria. Too often foreign trade seems too complicated, too marginal and too risky...
...missiles to be both cheaper and further advanced, the government canceled the bulk of its British programs. And, strapped for cash, it has delayed on re-equipping the RAF and Royal Navy with modern fighters. British military planemakers fell so far behind that they recently lost a big sale of supersonic fighters to India, which prefers Russian...
...somewhat on the defensive by this, we theorized that a bit of publicity might perhaps help the sale of his new book. "I hate publicity," Mr. Updike noted. "I write the books I want to write and send them down. "If the book's good, it's good. It doesn't matter whether it sells...
Then it dawned on the British pride that some rich American collector or museum would in all likelihood buy the drawing and take it away. Snowed under by protests, the fusty academy agreed to postpone the sale. Since then, more than 703,000 Britons have seen the once neglected work on display at the National Gallery−and a sizable number of them have thrown a shilling or two into a collection to buy it for the National Gallery. By last week, these and other contributions reached within $980.000 of the cut-rate $2,240,000 that the academy...
...hopes of salvaging $750,000 damages from the wreckage of Something's Got to Give. She offered a photographer exclusive rights to nearly-nude shots of her from the set because, she said, "I want the world to see my body." Last week, she negotiated still another sale of a nude photograph to a picture magazine...