Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Scholarship Funds and Its Implications for Education," John L. Holland, Research Director of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, claimed that the concentrated wealth and "narrow talent-searching" of the fifty most wealthy American universities has stifled student creativity and the quality of other institutions. The article raises questions that demand consideration: scholarship funds are scarce at most schools and methods of awarding them often favor those in high economic groups and with good grades. But the article contributes little to evaluating or solving these problems because of its imprecise arguments and its belligerent assignment of blame to these fifty "prestigious...
...world's money marts last week, all the talk, the worry and the news was about gold. The price of gold in London hit $35.25 ½ an ounce, highest since London's free market reopened six years ago. The swelling demand for gold by the world's bankers, as well as by private investors, reflected the troubled political state of the world and uncertainty over which way the U.S. economy-and thus the value of the dollar-is headed...
...continues, the rising price of gold may well increase its flight from the U.S. Until now, the sudden new demand for gold has been chiefly met by sales in London, since it has been cheaper to buy it there than in the U.S. While the U.S. always stands ready to sell gold for $35 an ounce, thus setting the "official" world price, purchasers who want to keep their gold abroad have usually found that service and shipping charges push the delivered price of U.S. gold up 25? to 30? an ounce over the London price. But last week...
Much of this is Bev Murphy's doing. In the seven years since he became Campbell boss, one-third of the company's 102 current products have been added to the Campbell line. He was one of the first to sense the housewife's increasing demand for the so-called "convenience" foods. In 1954 Campbell introduced the first frozen soups. After Omaha's C. A. Swanson & Sons brought out the first successful frozen TV Dinner, Murphy recognized a good thing. Campbell bought Swanson's in 1955, has doubled the Swanson line, reduced the cost...
...show, told his father about the "man making a whooping sound with a piece of Masonite." The Masonite people enlisted Harris in a promotion stunt, turned out 200 boards as giveaways. "We never dreamed what a mad flap was in store for us," says Sales Promotion Manager Bob Jones. Demand was so great that the company began selling the boards, had to hire extra hands for the increased production. In all, more than 55,000 boards have been sold in Australia...