Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, who had hoped for much more, were bitter. Said a grey-haired Siemens-Schuckert representative with a saber scar on his cheek: "Our labor productivity is down about 50%, our wages are frozen, our raw material costs are up, and we are expected to sell at a world market price...
...wanted young Kenneth to have the best of everything, sent him to Paris and Stuttgart for his prep-schooling. But Kenneth Parker has a much bigger reason for being an internationalist-Parker Pen does 40% of its business (last year's gross sales: $18.9 million) outside the U.S. market...
...Doldrums. The stock market ended its most sluggish month in three years with hardly any sign of picking up. The volume of trading never exceeded a million shares on any one day in August, slumped to a paltry 480,000 shares one day last week. Traders consoled themselves with the fact that prices just about held their own. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped only...
...Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). They are attractive and resourceful children, at first appearance, living the anarchic, hand-to-mouth life of most of Italy during the chaotic period between the Italian and German surrenders. Then they become front men for Giuseppe's older brother, in a small-time black market deal. They are caught and locked up for questioning. If they had informed on their elders promptly, they would probably have been released; but courage and their loyalty to Giuseppe's brother forbids informing. They are caught into the awful, rickety rollers of the State, and there they...
...became a $100-a-month bond salesman in Cleveland; in 1916 he went into investment banking for himself. He made his first killing in 1921, buying up depressed Liberty Bonds. Traders first began to notice him when he became a big buyer of Canadian bonds. In the bull market of the '20s, he loaded up heavily with Woolworth and Montgomery Ward when they were low-priced, made millions when they spiraled and were split. One of the few to unload before the 1929 crash, he doubled his fortune by going short...