Search Details

Word: marketeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone & Co.'s shrewd "market letter" and energetic ways soon brought it a large and profitable clientele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Nobler Men | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...largest asset item. Commercial banks at the year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios, over record bond prices, the bankers were a little jittery, fearing the inevitable upward turn in interest rates which will end the great est bull bond market in U. S. history (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bank Week | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Price rises in such great world staples as wheat, cotton, rubber and copper have been as thoroughly publicized as the Roosevelt bull market. But the world is full of a number of things just as important to industrial civilization as staples. For a broad view of commodities the businessman leans on the big wholesale price indices, typical of which are those computed by Dun & Bradstreet, the Department of Labor and the Annalist, financial weekly published by the New York Times. Last week a 23-year picture of these indices looked like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodity Chart | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Most cause for catcalls had old, famed Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., one of the world's largest music houses, best known exhibitor at the show. Two years ago, to recoup Depression losses on organs, pianos, violins, Wurlitzer broke into the coin machine market with nickel operated phonographs, Skee-ball games. Last year it is supposed to have grossed about $8,000,000 on these items alone. Last summer Rock-Ola, which had acquired patents on the coin phonograph from the old Deca-Disc Co., sued Wurlitzer for patent infringement. If this case goes against it, Wurlitzer may lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nickel Games | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Senator Wheeler: And you still think it was all right for you to accept from Morgan the Alleghany common at $20 when the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Getter-Out, Getter-In | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | Next