Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago the common stock of the Curtis Publishing Co. (Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman) "led the market." It sold above $200 a share. This was the first time that a publisher's stock has ever done so. It was deemed remarkable until one realized that the market over which Curtis Publishing gained its leadership, in which it was the highest priced for a day, was that of unlisted securities traded over brokers' counters. These are the precious shares whose owners esteem them too valuable for the dickerings of the stock...
...Forbes of the Potash Importing Co. of America, the U. S. agents of the German participants immediately sprang to defend his principles: "The German Potash Syndicate has absolutely prevented any possibility of the potash market being cornered to the detriment of the farmer. Prices have been maintained at the lowest level consistent with the costs of production and marketing. . . . The syndicate has never restricted potash production...
...geological survey and bureau of mines find no potassium salt deposits in Texas worthy of working in competition with the European market, they will try some rumored fields in New Mexico...
...Stock Market. Last week G. M.C . common turned over 386,100 shares on the Manhattan Stock Exchange,* reached its record high of 149¼. President Sloan's statement to stockholders had less to do with the situation than the facts that G. M. C.'s earnings for the first quarter of this year were $38,733,942 ($7.50 a share) and that for the first half they are estimated at $87,730,000 ($17 a share...
Alan A. Ryan, who in February 1920 secured a corner on Stutz shares, only to have them left on his hands without a market when the stock was stricken from the New York Stock Exchange list...