Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. Many of them had Manhattan papers read back to them by transatlantic telephone. London insurance brokers were suddenly swamped with an avalanche of customers. While $500 of insurance against postponement of the Coronation could at first be had for $20, latecomers were obliged to pay $130. Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take at any price the risk of what Edward VIII might do. In the eyes of British businessmen he had ceased last week to be the "Empire Salesman" and had become a most unsettling factor in trade...
...American Poets, which gives balls and raises money for fancy fellowships for U. S. poets. Explained Mrs. Bullock on one occasion: "Poetry has been on the decline in America principally, I believe, because poets must eat like the rest of us, and there has been no live or ready market for their wares...
...husband has had no trouble finding a market for his wares. Between 1924 and the end of last year Calvin Bullock sold $135,000,000 worth of fixed investment trusts, $78,000,000 worth of management trusts. One Bullock trust is Canadian Investment Fund, founded with a high-powered board of Canadian bigwigs in the days when the future of Canada looked considerably brighter than that of the U. S. Others include two series of Nation-Wide Securities, Carriers & General Corp., Dividend Shares, Bullock Fund...
...Broadway Market--All beers, wines and liquors at reasonable prices...
Durgin-Park--Where the Harvard man corners the market and appeases his appetite with the choicest of food. The proprietor knows well your needs for he was once amongst...