Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night, reviving the Depression custom of letting movie houses serve as places for shelter and a nap. Groceries advertise another depression standby: day-old bread. Restaurant men who used to have trouble finding enough dishwashers and porters now turn away lines of eager applicants. The police report a sharp upsurge in burglaries, thefts, armed robberies. On the other side of the law, a lot more young Detroiters are eager to wear a police uniform. Six months ago the police department had to advertise for recruits; today there is no need for ads-the academy is full...
...task Gunther brings driving curiosity, elephantine memory, gregarious charm, ferocious vitality. Reporter Gunther also has phenomenally sharp ears and eyes for the telling anecdote and the detail that vividly catches the mood. He has a homing instinct for the essentials in a complex situation. He is a master of the art of brain-picking-and of choosing the right brain to pick. From careful homework, he knows precisely what information his story needs, and can extract it with the efficiency of an automatic orange squeezer...
...could be increased without reduction of markets." Now the situation has changed. "We have had several months of declining industrial production. And the decline in business volume is conspicuous in those industries which set the fashion of long-term wage contracts with assured annual increases." What is needed are sharp price cuts. But instead, some industries have actually increased their prices. Concludes Banker Allen: "This is a new, a novel and a frightening theory of consumer behavior. It amounts to saying that consumers will neither be able nor willing to buy more goods and services at lower prices than...
Like a broken traffic light that shows both red and green, U.S. banks are glutted with savings, while their loan departments report a sharp fall-off in new business. Last week President Charles H. Brower of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne stepped into the money jam, whistled up an adman's notion of creating motion. Advertising has the job of awakening desire, said hard-selling Charlie Brower to an American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago. His advice: let bankers quickly borrow some advertising techniques...
...solution is not so much to caterwaul about imports, or even slack production schedules, but to return to the old-fashioned virtues of a free marketplace in which supply and demand set the price of petroleum products. What the oil industry needs more than anything else is some sharp price cuts to encourage more people to buy more...