Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conditions. Factors which have demoralized the Paperboard Industry are many. Chief of these have been the fact that continuous, 24-hour operation lowers costs tremendously, giving rise to a sales policy aimed more at gross than any consideration of price. A bullish item recited by Paperboard's manufacturers is that, while the total production is gaining too rapidly (Container Corp.'s sales went up 30% last year), new demands such as the frozen food business and air transportation, are being found...
...imperfections as clairvoyant were quickly recalled by a rival prophet, Roger Ward Babson of Babson Park, Mass., who said: "It should be recognized that he [Fisher] has changed his position from where he stood when he criticized me in my bearish forecast in ... September 1929. Then he was distinctly bullish on both the stock market and business." Prophet Babson added: "I am not especially troubled about the available supply of gold . . . only one of the many factors which bear upon the business situation...
...decline in patronage of the American theatre, especially that part of it located under the white lights of Broadway, during the last year has aroused the business acumen of the various producers in an attempt to perpetrate another bullish market of this particular art. Casting wildly about for the underlying influence causing the apathy of a public whose rudeness to most of the offerings of the season is now proverbial, they have finally hit upon, and at, the ticket speculators. The process of the latter in creating a corner on the best seats in the house was at one time...