Word: marketable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the intervention of the Department of Labor it will be possible to prevent the waste that now occurs because men of one trade are idle when they might be employed at another, and because industries hampered by lack of workers are uniformed of the Market in which their wants could be met. The extravagant idleness characteristic of seasonal trades can easily be modified, if not done away with. There are may occupations now producing luxuries that can be diverted to necessaries with profit to employers, employees and the country...
...also pointed out that bonds exchanged for merchandise must in most cases immediately be sold in the open market, which tends to depress the market price of the issue and makes it less easy to sell future issues at the same rate of interest...
...California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan and Ohio; from the Louisiana and Texas cane fields and mills, from Porto Rico and from Hawaii, as well as Cuba; with the result that there is no month in the entire year in which American-grown sugar is not being harvested and moved to market...
...Lampoon, apparently, has gone out into the open market this year and gleaned a fresh supply of stuff for its Christmas number--stuff and nonsense. Both items rank pretty highly, compared with former stereotyped numbers in which the stuff and nonsense have been merely the previous year's crop, garnished with new class numerals...
...present backing and filling of the Liberty bonds of both issues in the market is incident to placing of such a large amount of securities and will be speedily adjusted as the bonds find a final resting place in the hands of permanent holders. On every moderate recession they offer a great opportunity to obtain profitable investment in the safest securities on earth. Boston Transcript...