Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account, was the demand for textiles in the manufacture of automobiles. There you have the complete chain. The cotton-growing South, with more money to spend, buys new automobiles. The automobile makers buy more cotton goods from manufacturers in the Northeast and these manufacturers in turn go into the market for more cotton. . . . "Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family can live is opposed chiefly by the few who profited heavily from the Depression. It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to foment city people against the farmer...
...Food Machinery has plants at Portland, Ore. (apples, pears, tomatoes), Dunedin, Fla. (oranges, grapefruit), Massillon, Ohio (pumps), Lansing, Mich, (sprayers, motor products) and Hoopeston, Ill. (corn-canning). At Hoopeston was developed a can-filling machine, designed for corn, but also used by oil companies in their development of the market for canned motor...
...approached nicely, that Harvard plenipotentiaries bribed the Carnegie Foundation to put the University at the head of their list; that, as a matter of fact, as everybody knows, Harvard's true rank rests somewhere between a Junior High School and Notre Dame; that there is a regular market in Harvard, between Professors and Students, for grades in their courses ranging from 20 cents for a D misses in Government to $ for a Phi Beta Kappa...
...going to get sodden drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns...
...could have been purchased for $3,200. In 1928 the stock was split 3-for-1. Last week the new stock was up to $172. Thus the original holding of 100 shares at $32 had grown to 300 shares at $172, and a $3,200 investment had reached a market value of $51,600. The new stock split will not be ratified by stockholders until next April, at which date the original 100-share-holder will have 900 shares, will be disappointed if those shares are not worth at least $60 apiece...