Word: marketings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...money-making equipment to railroads is an old story to the Budd Co., which sold the first stainless steel streamliner, the Pioneer Zephyr, to the Burlington in 1934. Since World War II the company has sold some $115 million of railroad equipment, gained such a fat share of the market that it is now second only to Pullman as a railroad passenger-car builder. With the help of this booming sideline (Budd gets 83% of its revenue by making auto bodies, wheels, brakes), the company rolled up $137 million in sales for the first six months of 1950, boosted first...
...railroad-equipment field, Automan Budd cannily foresaw the end of the postwar rush for long-haul passenger cars, developed the Railway Diesel Car for economical passenger service for shorter runs. Thus, when the railway car market virtually vanished this year, Budd's foresight paid off: out of 18 passenger car orders placed with U.S. car builders this year, 16 are for Budd's new "RDCs...
Most packers thought that meat prices would dip a bit this fall, when big quantities of beef and hogs start moving to market. Meat production is expected to increase 20% over this quarter in the heaviest cattle slaughter since 1944, and consumers should benefit by the big supplies on hand...
...million Ibs. of wool this year; textile manufacturers fear that the skyrocketing wool prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready for another pinch: the National Security Resources Board Chairman W. Stuart Symington said that the Munitions Board will start stockpiling wool for Army, Navy and Air Force uniforms...
...Warner), based vaguely on the immensely successful 1924 musical No, No, Nanette, sheds a Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...