Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was old-fashioned fun. The public bought and Exchange members, who in the last week in June made 66% of all short sales, scrambled to buy the shares that they had sold but did not own. Four tangible factors were credited with causing the market excitement...
...Early in July, the French Government stepped into the copper market with an order for 50,000 tons, insisted that 29,000 tons of it be shipped immediately from U. S. stocks. This first installment was better than half of total domestic copper deliveries for any month this year. Fearing a runaway sellers' market, domestic buyers in the first three weeks of July bought over 160,000 tons, more than they had ordered in any single month since the flush days of October 1936 before President Roosevelt denounced high copper prices. This bid up the domestic price of copper...
...people came to the Fair the first year, a $1,000,000 profit on 50,000,000. With three months to go, it appeared that he would be lucky to get 30,000,000. Tip-off on his Big Show's fiscal status was the market for its $27,829,500 of outstanding 4% debentures (5% paid off): the closing...
Willkie said with TVA's privileges he could market power 35% cheaper than TVA was doing. Dave Lilienthal only grinned. Willkie offered to sell C. & S. Tennessee Valley properties at "any reasonable figure." Dave Lilienthal turned down the offer. Last fall, before a Congressional committee investigating TVA, daring Wendell Willkie offered to sell at any price SEC would set. The offer was not accepted but negotiations were quietly resumed between C. & S. and Lilienthal. Last week's announcement by Dave Lilienthal drew the curtain, perhaps permanently, on out-loud haggling over power...
Three and a quarter million U. S. farms consist of less than 70 acres and on most such farms horses are the only tractors Year and a half ago Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. invaded this market with a cheap light tractor. Last year Deere & Co followed; month ago Motormaker Henry Ford. No jitney tractor, however, was announced by the giant (29½%) of the power implement industry; tough, sprawling International Harvester...