Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, no one has ever heard of "lexicon", which, we are informed, is a cross between a spelling game and a cross word puzzle. It is rumored that this game, however, is going to be placed on the market by a game company, and that, purely by co-incidence, Lampy has just signed an extensive advertising contract with this same company...
...members of the Chicago Stock Exchange have lately had to content themselves with trading only 50,000 shares a day. * Hence the Chicago Exchange ranks behind the New York Stock Exchange, New York Curb and the Boston Stock Exchange as a securities market. Last week to prove that it ranks behind no U. S. market in progressiveness, the Chicago Exchange beat the New York Stock Exchange to a major reform proposal by 24 hours...
Last August the stock market climbed to a peak of 190% the Dow-Jones industrial averages, but trading was extremely thin. While Wall Street was complaining of a shortage of business due to overregulation, prices turned downward...
...banks to fail per year. In 1930, after a year of depression the figure vaulted to 1,350. Last week the present depression had been going only six months. But in that time business generally had fallen as far as it did in the entire year after the 1929 market smash. Significant therefore was the year-end report made by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week...
...great many of them were already objecting to other things, including the expense of national marketing. Foremost among the members who thought that Farmers National should be brought to an end was William Horn, a farmer from Ohio who was just as bald as Clarence Huff. Last year Farmer Horn quietly replaced Farmer Huff as president. And last September Farmers National had the bad luck to be short in the market when there was a squeeze in corn (TIME, Oct. 4). Farmers National paid through the nose to cover its short commitments. So the decision of President Horn...