Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit. Of the 300,000 schoolhouses in the land, only 10,000 have 16 mm. projectors and of these less than 700 are equipped for sound. With too few films to encourage new projectors and too few projectors to encourage new films, education by movie has never gotten...
...first two, hope to get their expenses back by renting the pictures to alumni and other groups. If Cinemactors Beale & Williston pay out, other films will follow. John Henry Wigmore, 74, dean emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School is tentatively scheduled for film three. The national market for law lecture films: 160,000 lawyers, 40,000 law-students...
...five preceding months refunding ran ahead of new capital, leaving figures for the first half of 1937 in the same relationship ($932,000,000 of refunding, $795,000,000 of new capital). This time it looked as if the relationship would stay reversed, the new trend continue until the market is glutted with new issues and another collapse occurs...
Other companies offering stock last week for the dual purpose of refunding and increasing working capital included Chicago Pneumatic Tool (70,000 shares of convertible prior preferred) and California's Food Machinery Corp. (40,000 shares of convertible preferred). Little Seaboard Finance Corp. went to market with 20,000 shares of convertible preferred to expand its small-loan and installment paper business in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia...
...long slide last spring, that Recovery was over. What was feared then was that the combination of strikes, rising labor costs and higher commodity prices would make for slimmer profits. That fear was by no means without foundation but it was exaggerated, as usual, in the stock-market's behavior. Stock prices have regained on the average about two-thirds of all ground lost between March and June. And by last week enough corporations had reported earnings for the first half of 1937 to indicate clearly that Big Business was still profitable...