Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughly the 1956 level of $3.2 billion. This season is shaping up as the hottest in the industry's 57-year history. Carrier Corp., the industry's Goliath (total 1958 sales: $252.5 million), is selling room units 32% ahead of last year, and Fedders Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower's Gettysburg farmhouse to King Saud's Saudi Arabian harem, topped last year's shipment rate by 47%. Borg-Warner's York...
...price. Five years ago U.S. auto exports were five times imports; today imports are nearly four times exports. Other consumer industries, ranging from fishing tackle and electric clocks to cameras, transistor radios, and generators are also running into stiff competition because the U.S. manufacturer cannot match the foreign seller, for reasons ranging from price to quality and delivery terms...
...free market, in which prices are set by a constant interplay of supply and demand, did not exist. In place of Smith's market-price theory, Means offered his administered-price theory. Said he: "An administered price is a price set by someone, usually a producer or a seller, and kept constant for a period of time and for a series of transactions. The opposite is a market price that fluctuates on the basis of supply and demand." Later Means amplified his definition by blaming administered prices on bigness in business. Wrote he in 1939: "While many factors influence...
...Ford took off running, has sold something like 500,000 cars for the model year so far, and still leads by 30,000 units. Chevy is creeping up, but it will have to do better than February's slim margin to hold its 1958 title of No. 1 seller...
...Stravinsky than any lawyer you could name." So says Goddard Lieberson, 47, the handsome, debonair president of Columbia Records. Lieberson ought to know. He is a musician (piano), composer (more than 100 pieces), novelist (Three for Bedroom C) and top-notch businessman. He has made Columbia the biggest seller of long-playing record albums (which now account for more than 70% of all records sold) and doubled its sales (now more than $50 million) since he took over as president...