Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers, thus cutting out of the market the flowers of the woods and fields...
...When the land is placed on the market; 2) when a farm becomes vacant; 3) when an estate is badly administered; 4) when a farm is badly cultivated...
...many of us do not appreciate what the Stock Exchange does for us. After all, what we do here is to sell securities and make an initial offering. We regulate the price in that initial offering, and then we pass them on to the Stock Exchange for a secondary market. All of us know that the secondary market is much more difficult than the primary market. If the bonds are successful they are good securities, and their secondary market on the Stock Exchange will be well taken care...
When the Reserve system poured cold water on the stock market, the result was quickly observable in the diminished cheerfulness in general business. Perhaps it was the realization of this which induced Mr. Mellon to issue a quite "bullish" interview, with especially favorable comment upon the extent to which shares have recently risen. At any rate, just as the stock market itself has apparently recovered from the psychological jolt thus administered to it, so have industry and commerce. Retailers, who for a while dreaded a slump until after the Christmas season, are now apparently in a more optimistic frame...
Another serious problem for the larger makers of industrial alcohol is the competition afforded their product by glycerin compounds for preventing frozen radiators. Glycerin is a by-product of soapmaking, and such large soapmakers as Lever Bros, and Procter & Gamble are strenuously seeking to market glycerin anti-freeze mixtures. The Commercial Solvents Co. and the United Carbide Co. also are perfecting competitive mixtures for the same purpose...