Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion was a promotion stunt cooked up to encourage tourist trade and to commemorate the landing in 449 of the Saxon chiefs Henges & Horsa. To greet last week's seafaring Danes (and put them in their place), a British band struck up Britannia, Rule the Waves...
Critics of radio commercials will be pleased to learn that these questions haunt no less a person than six-foot, greying Howard S. Meighan, 42, who is a CBS vice president. A huckster of 21 years standing, Meighan charged this week in the trade sheet Variety that radio's basic flaw is "the insincerity of language and manner used in the average . . . commercial...
...entertainment trade magazine Variety, a little dizzy from watching the industry spin, saw still another possibility: the public might say "aw-nuts to the whole thing and [go] back to just playing the radio...
Other TV manufacturers were not standing still. To snag the high-price trade, Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. last week brought out a console model with a 19-in. tube (the biggest ever made), to sell for $725. Magnavox Co. bragged that its three new 16-in. sets had the largest picture area (148 sq. in. v. the usual 126) of any 16-in. set now on the market (prices: $399-5° to $595). Westinghouse Electric Corp., to calm dealers' fears of inventory losses, adopted the policy of guaranteeing its television dealers against loss on any price cuts that...
Tricks of the Trade. In Detroit, Patrolman Edward F. Borchardt, ace police retriever of stolen automobiles, was arrested for stealing an automobile...