Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your unqualified statement: ". . . An investment trust's only justification is a record better than the market averages"-is inaccurate in my opinion. . . . Your assumption that capital appreciation is the only objective of investment trust managers again shows ignorance of the subject...
This would be a fact if at this time there had been perfected a thoroughly practical cotton picker and production of same in the first season was sufficient to harvest an appreciable part of the cotton crop together with a distributing organization capable of throwing the machine on the market to skeptical farmers over night, but such is certainly not the case...
With enormous backing, a nucleus of a company in which one of his brothers (Vincent) is art director and another (Zoltan) a director. Producer Korda last year arranged to attack the U. S. market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building...
...Reserve Board, which administers the credit end of Federal stockmarket control, Congress suggested a dual formula for fixing margin requirements which has been in effect since 1934. A broker could lend a customer the greater of either: 1) a flat percentage (now 45%) of a security's current market value; or 2) 100% of the lowest price-since July 1933, so long as that was not more than 75% of the present value...
Effective April 1, the change in market margins will cause little commotion, for the Roosevelt market continues to be largely a cash affair. Brokers loans, which were as high as $8,500,000,000 in 1929, are now about $1,000,000,000, having risen only $300,000,000 in the past year. The bank margins go into effect May 1, are not retroactive...