Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States of America will al-ways remain a decisive factor in Europe's trade, as a supplier of manufactured goods and as a source of capital for the development of her resources. The older continent for her part will no doubt continue to be the most profitable market for our wares...
...activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere. European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...
With a true American love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their...
...interested, or the German ballbearing industry in which he controls about 75% of production, or one of the great steel mills that consume the ore obtained from his Swedish mines. Last week the reason was clear. In the past there had been but two factors in the German match market. One was Swedish Match, the other the government-protected cartel* of independent manufacturers. Recently a new, disturbing agent had appeared. Matches from the vast timberlands of Russia were underselling the western manufactured product. It appeared evident that Matchmaker Kreuger had come to establish a 100% monopoly in Germany...
...importance was indicated when the Saturday Evening Post's Isaac Marcosson, "world's most famed" interviewer, chose him as prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...