Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government profit in excess of 10%, for the job. The Authority will accept the lowest bid, but will contract to sell the finished product to the operator at a figure equal to the cost of building the ship in a foreign yard. This figure is almost certain to be lower than the cost in the U. S. The difference constitutes the subsidy paid by the Government. In some cases this subsidy may be as high as 50% of the costs, the Government's maximum. On receiving the ship, the operator must pay the Authority...
...will look lower, and we will...
...becomes restricted when the customer's equity amounts to less than 55% of the market value of all securities held. Restriction does not mean that the customer has to put up more money. Margin calls are only caused by the Stock Exchange's private requirements, which are lower than the Government's. But restriction does mean that a customer may not withdraw either cash or securities until his equity is again built up to 55%. He may substitute one stock for another on a dollar-for-dollar basis. He may buy more stock if he puts...
...cracked the tightest cartels in Europe, notably in margarine, electric bulbs and galoshes, a Swedish necessity. Its combat tactics are simply to go into manufacturing, and by now K. F., rather than private business, tends to set prevailing prices, thus bringing the benefits of lower prices to the entire population instead of to cooperators alone...
Married. Myrna Loy, 31, sloe-eyed, Montana-born cinemactress (The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld); and Arthur Hornblow Jr., 43, scenarist, associate producer for Paramount; at Ensenada, Lower California, Mexico...