Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter century, and the Bureau expects a further decline in the next marketing year starting Oct. I. The 1935 spring slaughter was 30,402,000 head, down 20,000,000 from two years ago. Last week the Bureau predicted higher average prices for the coming year but lower than the present peak...
...fact that they had sold more stock than Stutz ever issued embarrassed the sharpers not a whit. Burke merely pulled its market plug, plummeting Stutz stock lower than it was before they started. On the ground that the installment purchases were now under-margined, the retailing houses "sold out" their customers accounts (i. e. pocketed the deposits). Profits amounted to $800,000. Early this year Burke put on another Stutz campaign that netted $100,000 and was set for a third when SEC intervened. On the basis of its findings SEC will seek indictments...
...stockholders an explanatory statement which cut considerable ground from under the Otis complaints. Reiterating that "it was in the best interest of the company not to deal with Otis & Co. as an underwriter," he outlined the benefits of the new first mortgage as follows: 1) Its interest rate is lower than the coupons of any of the bonds and notes it replaces; therefore a considerable interest saving would be effected. 2) Goodrich's reason for refunding the Hood Rubber notes, due in 1936 anyway, is to protect its investment in that company, which last March stood...
...writing-so chill it sometimes seems close to scorn-may dislike the general meanness that marks his minor figures, they are likely to agree that The Furys is a bold and arresting effort, less squeamish, less sentimental, than most of the novels dealing with the hardships of lower-class life...
...years that he has had sole control of the Times, Harry Chandler has proved himself not only a capable newspaperman manager, but also an inspired capitalist. Back in 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres in Lower California. He and his associates built Hollywood, founded a vast agricultural colony at Calexico which produced $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve...