Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fully consider the unnecessarily drastic effect which its enforcement will have on the coal industry in 15 southern Illinois counties, adjacent to St. Louis, employing 29,000 wage earners, and sending 4,000,000 tons of coal annually to your city, which is the natural market place for these counties...
...Traylor knew that the assets of her deceased husband's estate were all that stood between Mrs. Busby and her children and comparative privation. Yet he was willing to stake their all on a rise in the market. . . . His conduct . . . was not only imprudent and negligent but positively reckless...
...payment to her of surcharges equal to losses sustained during the bank's stewardship. She lost her suit after hearing her friend "Mel" Traylor admit he had made a bad guess by not liquidating the estate to get it out of a dangerous speculative position in a falling market (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Widow Busby went to the Cook County Circuit Court, but lost again. Still unimpressed, she appealed to the State Appellate Court...
...months over $11,000,000,000 worth of U. S. utilitarians only glared whenever the Securities & Exchange Commission made its stock appeal to their better selves-that by hushing their high-priced lawyers and registering under the Public Utility Act they could take advantage of the easy money market. Last month SEC's old argument gained new point with Judge Mack's decision in the Electric Bond & Share case (TIME, Feb. 8), which enabled a utility to register with SEC without thereby admitting the constitutionality of the Act's more dreaded provisions. Not slow to underscore this...
...proper motive" moved Cities Service's plaintiff stockholders. Mr. Doherty, they said, had been induced to sell the 200,000 shares by Cities Service directors in order to make his estate more liquid in the event of his death. Because the selling price was $17.50 below the market, Cities Service actually made a profit of from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 on the deal. Furthermore, Mr. Doherty retained and still holds 2,431,000 of Cities Service's 37.500,000 outstanding common shares, sold not a single share later in 1929 when the market price rose...