Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must conduct a long investigation into foreign production cost. When the inquiry is over, the need for the change has generally passed, or increased beyond the Commission's measurement. The new bill proposes that the Commission accelerate its work by studying only the "condition of competition" in the domestic market and making its recommendations thereon...
...oldtime Chicago wheat trader put it: "It's a footrace to Market?and a pretty poor market at that." Europe, whither Canada and the U. S. are racing to dump their surplus wheat, already has surplus wheat of its own and more surpluses pouring in from Australia and the Argentine...
Stressing "quality" as the distinctive attribute of British goods, and also the extraordinary diffuseness of the Empire's markets, the onetime Lord Mayor concluded: "We are frequently exhorted to copy American selling practices quite regardless of the fact that high pressure sales campaigns coupled with mass advertising in a closed market are not readily adaptable to the needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed...
...been several weeks since stock market daily turnovers have approached the records set by the Big Hoover Market and the Big, Bad Federal Reserve. Last week, however, the Manhattan Curb reported a day's turnover of 2,537,000 shares, third largest in Curb history and considerably exceeded only by Nov. 28, 1928 with its three million record. Artificial, however, was last week's large statistics, inasmuch as the high figure resulted chiefly from frenzied trading in one issue. Opening the day with a 35,000-share order, Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.-almost inactive for months-turned over...
...gross income of International was 54% from power, 25% from paper, 21% from miscellaneous sources. The company was not getting its lion's share of what newsprint business there was. In order to sell its output, International decided to invest in newspapers, to "buy a market." A case in point: in 1927 International had supplied one-third of the newsprint for the Herald and Traveler, in 1928 one-sixth. The outlook for 1929 was dubious. By purchasing stock in the two newspapers. International got their whole newsprint order. Mr. Graustein next argued that vertical combinations between newspapers and newsprintmakers...