Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From one point of view, Joe Kennedy is a common denominator of the U. S. businessman - "safe," "middle-of-the-road," a horse-trader at heart, with one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children. But he is a super common denominator, uncommonly commonsensible, stiletto-shrewd, practical as only a former president of a small bank can be. As Ambassador Kennedy his attitude is the same as that of Businessman Kennedy: Where...
Hollywood's markets, it also, in the immediate future, reduced Hollywood's competition. British, French and German studios shut down, and their backlog of product could not last more than three months. Out of the running, they would leave U. S. pictures a free hand in the rich world market. Russia makes 95% of the pictures shown in its theatres, but all other countries are steady cinema customers of the U. S. India makes only 50% of its pictures, Japan only 35%, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden and the South American countries all less than 10%. Playing this probability...
...peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...
...plane. It worked. Les Irvin's first pack parachute was made of cumbersome cotton. Later he aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh; four emergency jumps...
...Oriental's charter: for payment of Y25,000 (about $8,500) annually to the Chosen Government, the mining company was free from all taxes, import-export duties. Eight years ago Japan got tough, embargoed gold exports, forced Oriental to sell gold to her at prices below the world market, paid off in unsteady Yen. Last week Oriental, last big U. S. concession in Korea, got out while the going was still passable...