Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administered to him at a nearby hut. His left arm and shoulder were strapped and bound to prevent straining the fracture. Solicitous hands bundled him into a heavy overcoat, buttoned it tightly across his chest, turned up the fur collar about his ears. His chauffeur drove him carefully to Market Harborough station. There he picked up the public telephone instrument with his free hand and called his secretary at York House, London: "I'll be back to dinner, and you'll see that there's very little the matter with...
...share of the preferred. Thus 80-year-old Chairman Elbert Henry Gary's frequently repeated dictum that U. S. Steel common was a "7% stock" was reaffirmed. He remains as Chairman of the Board. Recently U. S. Steel has been climbing on the stock market because of rumors that a melon would...
Hereafter, it was announced last week by Henry J. Fuller, Chairman, of the Board and President of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., the concern will go out for a greater share of the U. S. high-priced-car market. On Jan. 1 it acquired Brewster & Co., famed Long Island City makers of fine motor bodies, which gives the combined firms a payroll of 1,600 employes. These will expand to 5,000 or 6,000 in 1926, President Fuller confidently expects...
...amount of available working capital has been invested in very old or very new plants and has become worthless. But the cleaning up process, the exclusion of weak, newly founded enterprises seems to be nearly finished. The export surplus in December together with the reawakening of the international money market is one of the best signs of a slowly recovering economic situation. Even if this recovery should fail to become a lasting...
...Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock Exchange. To W. W. Murphy, his secretary, he quietly talked; ordered large buying orders in those securities. Their board quotations climbed at once, and next day's newspapers headlined "Sick Man Rallies Stock Market...