Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alternate disappointment and hope requires emphasis, and the fact that a well-drilled team playing a hard, consistent, alert game as a team has brought fruition to the ceaseless effort of Dick Harlow, victory to the undergraduates, and a book to Harvard's stock in the national football market. Now two more animals remain to be vivisected: the Mule and the Bulldog...
...corn the market price has plummeted from last spring's high of about $1.35 per bu. to 62?. Prices on the farm, always lower,are around 45?. Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average. This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu.-and there are fewer hogs, chickens and steers...
...resulted in a large number of them either giving their lists exclusively to the Harvard Cooperative Society or sending that firm advance notice of the books to be used in their courses. By this means the Coop has been given a monopoly position in the new and secondhand book market in Harvard Square, and the undergraduate is paying the price...
...practice of advance releases robs the student of a market for many of his used books at the end of the year. Obviously, when the Coop is acquainted with the books to be used the following fall, they will not buy books they cannot hope to sell again, and they also offer, for books that are to be used again, more than they are worth. This necessitates an even higher price for such books the following September...
Earnings statements last week were still too scattered to be conclusive and the market slide was not to be stopped so easily. It broke to the lowest lows since 1935, then continued dizzily downward driving Dow-Jones industrial averages some ten points lower to 125. U. .S. Steel led the way, going to a new bottom of $61.50-less than half of the year's high ($126.50). New York Central fell to $17.50, lower even than in 1932 when Delaware & Hudson's shrewd President, Leonor F. Loree, thought it a great bargain and bought his road...