Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1931 the quickest U. S. treatment for unhappy marriage has been Renovation (divorce in Nevada) which requires six weeks' residence. Last week on Valentine's Day the rugged (and strongly Roman Catholic) State of Montana set up a rival divorce market when its Senate passed (35 to 18) a lower-house bill, which Governor Roy E. Ayers was sure to sign, requiring residence of only 30 days for divorcers, on broad grounds from incompatibility to insanity...
...Harvard's Adams House. Brought up a Quaker, he put his idea of art in three words: "Isolate thy beauty." Widemouthed, humorous, stubborn and good company, he earned praise, honor from museums and meagre keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty closed in. He wore himself out trying to design and sell andirons and door knockers, was in bitter straits when he died, three weeks ago, on Staten Island...
...year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived more than five years ago but will not be on the market until...
...week full of important utility events (see p. 58), North American's successful reshaping was not the least significant. It was: 1) the first publicly offered bond issue of 1939, and thus broke the capital market's ominous stagnation; 2) the first major public utility holding company financing since passage of the death sentence drove the industry into financial hibernation four years...
Then he teamed up with the Rothschilds and Sir Marcus Samuel, who had made Shell Transport & Trading Co. the most powerful oil company in England. They fought Standard Oil for a market in China, won it in spite of the millions of kerosene lamps Standard gave away. By this time Deterding was director of the combined companies, now known as the Royal Dutch-Shell group. For the next decade he busied himself grabbing up oil properties in Venezuela, Mexico, California...