Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hens in the East, the mild, muddy winter of 1936-37 has seemed enough like spring to stimulate prodigious, pre-seasonal laying. Not long after Christmas farmers found themselves with more pails of fresh eggs than they could sell. Early last month the New York egg market was glutted, wholesale prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene...
Though the immediate effect of this was to attract an even larger number of egg-sellers to the New York market than before, by week's end wholesale prices had steadied, moved up a little. Surplus Commodities Corp. hoped that this would dissuade poultry farmers from cutting down on feed and hatchings, thereby causing an egg shortage next autumn...
...Texas Corp. Last week Texaco filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the issuance of 1,557,000 shares of common stock, to be offered to Texas stockholders at about $40 a share on the basis of one new share for each six held. Market price of Texas common last week was $52. Of the estimated $62,000.000 proceeds from its new issue Texas will use a big slice for foreign expansion...
Other articles are a discussion of stock markets and their control in the United States, a consideration of the effects of the period 1926-36, with data gathered from corporate income-tax return, and an article on the scope of quantitative market analysis...
Although it has long been known that the same species of shrimp found in Norway is to be found also along the coast of North America from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, fishermen have not generally known of its abundance, or, knowing it, have not attempted to develop a market. Consequently when Dr. Hjort came here last year as a guest of Harvard, and also of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (of which Professor H. B. Bigelow is director), he set about at once to learn whether the shrimps are as abundant here as they are in Europe...