Search Details

Word: marketeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Steel. Far from gay, however, was the tory of U. S. Steel Corp. Big Steel has run at lower percent of capacity than the independents, has faced bitter price competition in the profitable (to others) Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Threats of war in Europe have been one factor retarding U. S. business, but last week a significant incident spoke in an-other tone of voice. After waiting anxiously for days, businessmen heard Adolf Hitler speak (see p. 18). Promptly the London market spurted up and the New York market headed down-a pointed suggestion that the worries of U. S. business are made in the U. S. Two of those worries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Soggy Spring | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Sharing Big Steel's worries, in a more modest way, is the industry's No. 4 unit-Jones & Laughlin, also frozen up in Pittsburgh, also led in the Detroit flat-steel market by National Steel and others. Owing preferred stockholders $36.75 a share of back dividends, J. & L. is certainly no happier than Big Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...lower jaws of billions of fat worms were steadily spinning filaments of silk. This valuable regurgitation has gone on in Japan for centuries but rarely has it been such a source of interest to the outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Silk Squeeze | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | Next