1968 Could Be The Year Salesmen Have To Hurry
AP Business Analyst John Cunniefe reports 1968 may require sharper selling as consumer reluctance tests American salesmanship. Firms plan tougher promotions and renewed fundamentals to restore confidence, with executives, managers, and salesmen facing pressure to inform buyers and accelerate purchases amid uncertainty about war taxes prices and urban unrest.
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John Cunniefe
New York
Jean
America
Betty Furness
Miami Beach
William Luneburg
American Motors Corp
France Faces 1968 Uncertainty Amid Economic Pressures
Paris reports show France facing a fragile 1968 with an uncertain outlook as unemployment stays high, the balance of payments weakens, and the government weighs a five point plan. American fiscal shifts, tariff changes, and U.S. troop withdrawals influence French growth prospects and gold reserves.
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Paris
Johnson
U.S
Obievers
France
Emment
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
Sunday ads and notices span readers in 1968 issue
A jumble of classified items appears with missing letters and garbled lines. The page mentions an Alcoholics Anonymous contact, a lost cat reward, civil service job prospects, and job ads including private club dining and hostesses. A Seattle AP snippet notes driers mounted on a tanker bridge portholes to reduce salt spray on ships.
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Chantilly
Ye Hwy
la Porte
New York
California
Howell
Im- Seattle
Horwand
Employment ads from Channel Agency listing various clerical and shop positions
Classified page listing multiple job openings including secretary, bookkeeper, warehouse driver, truck driver, body man, repair technician, barber shop helper, and windowed staff. Highlights include the secretary salaries around 210 to 300 monthly, requirements like typing and shorthand, and locations in Pasadena Saytown Bayshore. Contact details and shop names such as Pilgrim's THO Market and Bayshore Motors appear.
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Pilgrim's
Jim Risenhoover
jBayshore Motors
Bayney Dr
Saytown
Barber Shop
Shine Boy
Foo Tighe Prrson
Channel Employment Agency
Pasadena
Channel Employment 3 Patodeng in Pasadena
A terse item lists Shaver Patodeng GR ras t Pasadena GR 7-1637 under channel employment notices. The readable text provides a name, location, and a code or date fragment without broader context.
City awards contracts for tractor and GE equipment
Baytown city council approved a contract with Kemp and Tony's Equipment Co for a new tractor and mower at 3 579 10 below the 3 000 budget. General Electric won the bid for several communications devices at 3 854 below the budget of 3 992. Downtown traffic study delayed. Civilians for dispatchers eyed with 13 20 funds set aside. City Manager Fritz Lanham reports Baytown construction boom with 1967 spending of 3644 million on single family units and 269 single family houses plus 1 297 apartment units, marking a strong four year period.
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Kemp
Tony
Coot Baytown
Baytown
General Electric
Civili Service Commission
Lanham
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