Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bait intended to lure moths away from clothing has been put on the market by a Wisconsin manufacturer. Called "Moth Wool," it consists of a package of blue woolen fabric, contains a chemical which kills the eggs laid in it, costs 95?. What the secret of its attraction is the maker refuses to reveal...
...honors with a respectable pop. The stockmarket managed to put on two successive million-share days before slumping back into the dullness of the past six weeks. Businessmen and brokers were pleased with, if not excited by, the G.O.P. platform. Mr. Landon's talk of gold had no market magic...
What Cleveland really gave to U. S. Business was something to hope for instead of to hope against. Odds on President Roosevelt's re-election dropped from 2-to-1 to as low as 8-to-5. There was almost no money actually bet, however. Market-minded people preferred to buy deflated shares in utility holding companies which have suffered from Democratic power policies. They figure that if President Roosevelt is reelected, utility companies will be little, if any, worse off than they...
...States, this boom meant undreamed of profits. A barrel of potatoes costs about $2 to grow, another 75?^ to dig, pack, ship. Prices were so low on the Eastern Shore last year that desperate farmers hijacked and destroyed truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...
...last week, potatoes began to appear from unsuspected quarters. In Manhattan heavy shipments from North Carolina helped send old crop quotations crashing from $4.40 per bag to $3.50. New potatoes tumbled from $7.75 per bbl. to $5.50. Speculating in potatoes is ticklish business because there is no potato futures market, and operators find it hard to unload in a hurry. In last week's flurry a number of speculators were caught with their hands full of hot potatoes. And cool week-end rains in the East did not add to their comfort...