Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans' vague but earnest promise to end crop restriction, the Democrats matched with a declaration in favor of "the production of all the market will absorb, both at home and abroad, plus a reserve supply sufficient to insure fair prices to consumers." To most observers that sounded like crop control stated backwards. Into the farm plank also went such pledges as continued benefit pay ments, Government refinancing of farm debts, encouragement of cooperatives, retirement of submarginal land, "recognition" of the evils of farm tenancy...
...Great Britain to recognize explicitly that South Africa is not bound to participate in a war entered by the Mother Country; 4) mutual agreement between Mother and Daughter that if, as South Africa anticipates, the Government of Portugal encounters heavy weather and its African colonies "fall upon the market," South Africa will share with Great Britain in determining their fate...
...acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came out as Benton & Bowles, Inc. Glib Partner Bowles began to write copy. Aggressive Partner Benton went out to sell...
...Arctic. On big home sets Zenith's earnings grew from $121,000 in 1925 to $1,109,000 in 1929. When grief overtook the radio business in 1929, Zenith fell with saving promptness into the pattern of retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery was visible, however, Zenith had accumulated a deficit of $750,000. Then President McDonald began to expand as fast as he had retrenched. In 1934 he put over the first...
...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...