Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That there is some chafing under the strain of the demand is some indication of the role that the resister sees for himself here. The anti-war activist is anxious to be about his business and can't, for fear of being packed up in the increasingly frequent demonstrations at McGill University. "I came here to get out of that middle-class bag," remarked one, "and look where they've got me now." But Logos, the local underground paper, harbors a number of the hippier American exiles; it is presently staffed by the usual long-haired contingent and a select...
...trick these days for a broker to have $20 million in buying power. If he is attracted to a company that has few shares outstanding, induces his customers to buy the stock, and puts only 5% ($1,000,000) of his buying power into it, the demand is likely to drive the stock up simply because its supply is so limited. Many brokers tend to favor lower-priced issues because they carry higher commissions. Quite a few also like to find a "hot" industry and then recommend one of the most depressed companies in the field. Explains one top broker...
These hoards of investment capital have been a major factor in sending prices up because they have created a demand for stock that is growing much faster than the supply of shares. Largely because capital-seeking companies now get a better tax break by issuing bonds instead of stock, the amount of newly issued shares dropped from $5.2 billion in 1957 to $1.5 billion in 1967 (when $16 billion in bonds were floated...
...recent weeks, militant leftist students have been interrupting worship at West German Protestant churches, which they claim are unconcerned with the real problems of the world. Among other things, the demonstrators have demanded that ministers turn their services into group discussions on such topics as the immorality of capitalism. Since no pastor has yet seen fit to accept this demand, the agitators have occasionally littered the churches with copies of a bitter fiscal parody of the Lord's Prayer...
...auto industry, plagued by lower consumer demand during the first part of 1967 and strikes later on, showed signs of rebounding at year's end. General Motors increased profits during the fourth quarter by 2% to pare its decline for the year to 9%. The company reported* total earnings of $1.63 billion on sales of $20 billion. Though the industry hopes for record car sales in 1968, the momentum of G.M., for one, is threatened by continued labor woes. With local walkouts curtailing production at company plants, some 84,000 G.M. workers were...