Word: market
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accused of all sorts of terrible things, of us wanting to undermine your market, of dumping and so forth. There was no such talk before, but when you had your recession, there were people who wanted to put the whole blame on the Russians. All these fables of us being such terrible devils are not well founded. We want to trade in earnest and well...
...will not cripple Cuba's sugar-based economy by drastic agrarian reform. They will keep the climate warm for U.S. investors, whose $800 million stake in Cuba includes huge plantations producing 40% of the sugar. In turn. Cuba will keep its big, guaranteed share of the U.S. sugar market. A dozen U.S. industries in Cuba, including Firestone, Du Pont, Reynolds, Phelps Dodge and Remington Rand, finished plants last year, and other big firms are going ahead with building plans...
...further interest" in the matter. Privately, Alcoa officials fumed that the Aluminium management had led them down the garden path by airily assuring Alcoa that Treasury approval was routine. The worst of it was that once Alcoa had signed the $8.40 agreement, it could not go into the market and offer more without making the $8.40 look bad. To top off Alcoa's unhappiness, its chief competitor had a major European affiliate; Alcoa had none...
...month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents, utility magnates and numberless clerks. One customer was young Lawyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another was a partner in a brokerage firm, who introduced Joe's savings to the stock market. Soon the bootblack was looking after his own investment positions. If he had sold before the crash of October 1929, he would have realized at least $250,000. He did not sell, went on shining shoes until last week...
...million cash that Jack Knight asked for his 75% controlling interest in the News. Ultimately the buy will cost Field another $6,000,000. as minority stockholders, with some 120.000 shares, respond to his offer to buy them out at $50 a share-5 points over the market price. For this he gets an afternoon circulation of 547,796 and a paper which under Knight has turned an average annual net profit...