Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel scrap, cleared out the junk yards, sent the price of scrap skyrocketing to $22.50 a ton, but capacity production yields a good deal of new scrap, and the mills have already bought sizable supplies. By last week, scrap had not become too plentiful, but mills still in the market were picking it up for as little...
...supplementary SEC report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a note of caution: Yellow Truck, its almost wholly owned subsidiary, has enough business to carry it through June 1940, had been set to pay off its $14-a-share preferred dividend arrearage. Instead, the G. M. management drew in its horns, paid only half...
...store that operates its own millinery department and is dependent for merchandise upon infrequent trips to the market by its own buyer . . . cannot hope to keep up with the style demands of the consumer...
...railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...
...YORK--Discussion of a national defense emergency tax injected a new note of uncertainty in the stock market last week and sent security prices tumbling to the lowest levels since September...