Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week (just before elections) shied off all suggestions of tax-exemption in his aloof discussion of the Lambert Plan, but Inventor Lambert had an argument appealing to more than one New Dealer: tax exemption would cost the Government nothing, since much of the capital contemplated for the vast Housing market of Phase No. 5 is now lying idle and untaxed anyway, and the stimulation to industry would increase the revenues of the Treasury...
...almost unlimited extension of Japanese influence in East Asia and of German influence in East Europe. The shades of British Imperialists from Good Queen Bess to Rudyard Kipling must have paled perceptively. But an optimist to pessimists, and others, Neville Chamberlain said: "China cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during the war means that even more will have to be introduced after the war is over. It is quite certain that it cannot be supplied by Japan...
...wish to block Germany out of these countries or encircle her economically. True, we have certain trade interests there ourselves and we need to maintain those interests. In that respect, we shall have the good will of the countries themselves because although it is true that their international market will be found chiefly in Germany, nevertheless they can as a rule only obtain payment from Germany either in the form of goods, by barter arrangements or by blocked marks...
British businessmen ignored Stanley's proposal to establish trading posts in the Congo, but shrewd King Leopold II of the Belgians, in the market for a colonial empire, sent him into the region as the representative of a Belgian association of traders. In a few years Stanley had so expanded the association's influence through trading posts and treaty alliances with petty native chiefs that by 1885 the world powers at Berlin agreed to recognize the Congo as a sovereign, free State, under control of the trading company. Leopold's next step, as head of the company...
...another haven for shut-ins. His job involves ad libbing a show which is half benefit, half heartstring jerker. Last week he interviewed patients, put his guests through their cheer-spreading paces. Although he is doing this series free, New York's one-time mayor is in the market for a sponsor...