Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole television industry, getting the savings from ever-increasing mass production, was right with him. RCA last week priced its 1950 10-in. table model at $169.95, the cheapest price for any brand-name set of that size. Philco, Admiral, Westinghouse, Tele-tone and others had trimmed prices as much as $70 on small sets, up to $175 on big console combinations. In the high-pitched television battle for 1950's market, the consumer was bound...
Housewives could hardly believe their eyes. In three months the glut of eggs across the land had put prices on the skids. In Manhattan, for example, they had dropped as much as 31? a dozen, and by last week were down to 51?, lowest price since 1942. And the Department of Agriculture had finally been forced to lower its high support price...
Because poultry raisers had increased their flocks, to cash in on support prices, and the warm winter had increased egg production unseasonally, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan said he had "no alternative." By thus permitting prices to drop, he hoped to step up egg-eating. This week the department began to support eggs at a new level of 37? a dozen v. the 45? average last year. It looked as though even the Department of Agriculture was finally being forced to try a freer market to ease the enormous farm surpluses...
...cosy living room of Mrs. Rosamond L. Wright's home in Springfield, Mass, one evening last week, ten women gathered for a special kind of party. On a card table was a variety of household articles made and marketed by Stanley Home Products, Inc. The women were there to be sold; there to sell them was matronly Mrs. Mabel Hayden, one of Stanley's crack dealers, who had persuaded Mrs. Wright to turn over her house for the occasion...
Hostesses & Hosiery. All over the U.S. last week, parties like Mrs. Wright's were being held under the direction of some 16,000 Stanley dealers. By such direct, folksy methods, big, ruddy-faced F. Stanley Beveridge, 70, has made his Stanley Home Products, Inc. bigger even than famed Fuller Brush Co., where he learned the tricks of the trade. Last year his sales hit a peak of $35 million (v. Fuller's $32,250,000); its net: $2,900,000. Last week, as he stepped up operations in the Canadian market and planned to use national advertising...