Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both the large and small investor this study should serve as a valuable bandbok. Mr. Shaffner clarifies the present market situation and realizes an attempt to warn today's investor of the pitfalls which confront him. His recommendations form a minor part of the book, the greater portion being taken up with a critical analysis of prevailing corporate practises and investment theories, but they seem substantially accurate and well-founded...
Even in a stock market buoyed with business recovery and inflation prospects, it is possible for the unwary investor to get his fingers burned. If, for example, a market-follower had bought 100 shares of American Can on Oct. 22, 1935, he would have invested $14,962. A corresponding flyer in Continental Can on Nov. 20, 1935 would have cost $9,925. As last week's market closed, 100 shares of American Can were worth $12,300 and 100 shares of Continental Can were worth $7,900. On the two investments, the buyer would...
...Ones. With the exception of a handful of giant institutions, the 15,994 U. S. banks now open are largely locally owned. Unless an investor happens to be a stockholder, his only interest in these banks is their periodic and anonymous appearance in composite banking figures. However, Chase National Bank, biggest in the U. S., is owned by 92,000 stockholders including John Davison Rockefeller Jr., whose interest is less than 5%. National City has 90,000 shareholders, Guaranty Trust, 24,400. These three biggest U. S. banks have yet to hold their meetings, but most of the other supersolvent...
...Boston the Herald's Edson Bernard Smith is the city's leading financial editor, writing a daily signed-and-boxed column called "The Investor." Son of the Herald's onetime political editor, he has been on that daily ever since he graduated from Harvard (Class of 1909) except for War-time service in the Air Corps. Close to the best news sources in a city that makes considerable financial news, Editor Smith often in demand as a speaker and lecturer. Probably read in more corners of the earth than any other U. S. financial editor...
...investor who ever rode a Virginian passenger train would probably refuse the road's preferred stock as a gift. One antiquated train is scheduled each way daily. If regulatory bodies would consent, even that train would not run. Less than 1% of Virginian's revenues are derived from passenger, mail and express service...