Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marital status: 1,830 were single, 2,773 married, and 607 were widowed, divorced or separated. In contrast with the widely accepted notion that married women who already have several children make up the bulk of the abortion trade, only 402 of Timanus' operations were performed on women who had more than two children...
...that the U.S. will soon raise the price of gold from $35 an ounce, where it has stayed since 1934, to $40. Such an action, went the talk, would not only ease the profit squeeze on many of the world's mining companies, but would also stimulate foreign trade by increasing the foreign-exchange reserves of many U.S. friends and allies...
When its shiny new DC-8 takes off on its maiden test flight this week, Douglas will launch a major challenger to Boeing's already-tested 707 in the jet airliner race. To sell such new airliners, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are adopting an old-fashioned marketing technique: the trade-in allowance. Boeing has agreed to take back 14 propeller-driven Stratocruisers when it delivers its 707s to British Overseas Airways Corp., has offered to give trade-in allowances on nine more 707s to Northwest Airlines. Douglas is negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some...
...tumbled 40% to 60%. American Airlines, which has four DC-7s currently for sale and may have up to 25 more by July 1959, is asking $1,200,000 for an aircraft that cost $2,000,000 new. A DC-6B that cost $1,300,000 might have a trade-in value of $750,000, but would fetch far less in the open market...
...moment, none of the planemakers is sure of customers for the piston aircraft, though there are 1,100 DC-3s and DC-4s around the world that will soon have to be replaced. Even without the assurance of a market, the planemakers will take trade-ins because, according to one. "a trade-in may be just enough to tip a deal your...