Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absentee management of unnecessary holding company control has lost touch with and has lost the sympathy of the communities it pretends to serve. ... A business that loses the confidence of its customers and the goodwill of the public cannot long continue to be a good risk for the investor...
...investment trust in the U. S. Mr. Odium's theories of how to run his $110,000,000 company are as new to the U. S. as his own success. The average trust merely invests its funds in a long list of good stocks & bonds that any shrewd investor would buy if he had the money. In Britain, where this type of financial institution is so old that prime trust debentures sell on a par with government securities, the investment trust has more economic justification. There, as underwriters and investors, the big trusts often finance an entire enterprise during...
...fish or even had a strike. She has few friends in the cinema industry. Most of the employes on the Warner lot, where her contract has another year to run, believe her husband is a millionaire connected with S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor"). W. Straus & Co. is in receivership. Claire Dodd's husband is actually Richard Straus, a Los Angeles realtor of moderate means. She likes large dogs and owns a Pomeranian. In her screen career, prior to The Case of the Curious Bride, she has always been cast as a siren...
...long as American investors know that there has been something wrong with the management and control of the railroads, so long as they know that their money has been used for improper purposes, so long as they feel that the facts have been kept from them . . . and so long as they feel that nothing substantial has been done to prevent the return of the railroads to men of the same type as those who have mishandled the roads in the past, just so long is the confidence of the American investor going to remain impaired. The way to restore confidence...
When Prohibition ended many a U. S. investor believed that soft drink corporations like Coca-Cola would suffer, while companies making ginger ale and carbonated water as "mixings" would greatly benefit. Last week this belief was definitely exploded when Coca-Cola common marched into a new all-time high of $200 a share and Canada Dry Ginger Ale sank to a two-year low of $8.75. Canada Dry's directors had cut the quarterly dividend from 25? to 10? a share. White Rock Mineral Springs Co. sold off to a three-year low the week before when its directors...