Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quanto Esse." Rome was first to reply. The Italian Government had just taken four steps: 1) announced a 5% war loan so huge that it shook down Rome's stock market several points; 2) obtained from King Vittorio Emanuele III a decree making Benito Mussolini the sole Italian arbiter of Peace or War; 3) set up a board of Italian fighting service commanders to co-ordinate army, air force and fleet move ments; 4) placed 10.000,000 Italians of both sexes on call for a "practice mobilization"?really a nationwide Fascist pep rally?liable to be announced...
...slumped, the shoe-string speculators were sold out and the insiders picked up their 'shares again, having turned a quick profit. Later in the week the rumor mongers tried one along the line that Italy had accepted a League compromise. The short-sellers covered themselves comfortably as the market skidded down, were in a position to get back on the long side when the press associations brought the good news that it still looked like...
...earth need more grain than they have bought in years, Canada alone can supply them. So for once it looked as if a governmental stabilization scheme might turn a profit instead of the usual loss. With its enormous reservoir of wheat accumulated in tireless attempts to support the Winnipeg market, the Canadian Grain Board can almost dictate its own prices...
...first October stock-market crash in 1929, Good Humors were being sold in Cleveland and Chicago by a syndicate which bought out Inventor Burt's widow. On the day after the crash Speculator Meehan took $500,000 out of the market, bought into the syndicate...
...marketing costs of various issues are not strictly comparable. One issue may be hard to sell, another easy, depending on the corporation's credit. An underwriter like Kuhn, Loeb may pay some of the legal and accounting fees involved in preparing an issue or may have spent months advising the company on a comprehensive financial program of which the bonds are only a part. But in the present money market it is clearly cheaper for super-solvent corporations to use a selling agent on commission...