Word: marketings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Hong Kong he had occasion to investigate the black market for TIME and LIFE inside Communist China. Travelers reported the following prices for TIME in Shanghai: for the current issue, $1.80 (54,000 Chinese dollars); up to two weeks old, $1.50; up to one month old, $1.20. Copies of TIME can be bought furtively from street vendors in Shanghai and are passed from hand to hand to other readers...
...momentous story tells of a discharged soldier, half swashbuckler and half misanthrope, who wanders upon a market town to find it conducting a witch hunt. In an effort, both altruistic and egoistic, to divert attention from the unknown "witch" to himself, he bellows to anybody who will listen that he has committed murder and insists on being hanged. But once he sees the young and beguiling witch, he is willing to be cleared of murder and in a fair way to be cured of misanthropy...
...first tried to get the two rivals to combine into a single system. Failing in this, FPC last week authorized Northeastern to serve a large part of the market it had staked out. Algonquin, it said, would get the right to serve the remaining area once it proves it has the gas. Under this Solomon-like verdict, enterprising Northeastern gets roughly 54% of the estimated New England natural-gas market, Algonquin the remaining 46%. Both companies expected to begin selling their natural gas by next fall. Neither could start too soon to suit New England, where lack of natural...
Last week, he held an auction at his Headquarters Ranch near Kingsville to see how much his bulls would actually bring in an open market. Up for sale went 29 of his best young Santa Gertrudis bulls. To Kleberg's surprise, some 500 ranchers from all over the Southwest swarmed into the flapping brown auction tent, braving a chill Texas "Norther." The bidding was even more surprising. The first bull went for $1,450, the next for $1,575; one fine bull brought the top price of $10,000. In all, the 29 bulls brought an average price...
...Market. In Portland, reported the Oregon Journal, a local dress shop put a placard in its window: "Maternity Fashions for the Modern Miss...