Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh last week the sport market was booming. Citizens who did not know a bunt from a pop fly jabbered baseball and watched the box scores of the local Pirates, recently quoted odds-on favorites to win the National League pennant-something that has not come Pittsburgh's way since...
Habitués of Sardi's, Broadway's theatrical rendezvous, expect some day to attend an opening of a play like this with some such title as The Battle of the Market Place. For frequently to be seen at Sardi's, where he was long known solely as "Mr. Chocolate" from his penchant for hot chocolate, is a young theatre enthusiast who sees every play that comes to Broadway and has already written three himself (none produced). At present, Mr. Chocolate is too busy to keep up his writing; he happens to be the new president...
Neither an originator and intellectual like Wright, nor a theorist and teacher like Harvard's Walter Gropius, Albert Kahn wrought his architecture out of the demands of his clients. A poor boy like many of them, he had to create his own market. When he began factory work in 1903 he had to show industrialists that he could design cheaper and more efficient buildings than their own engineers. He still has to. Kahn clients see eye to eye with an architect who says, as Kahn says, "Architecture is 90% business...
...production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum products, foodstuffs, wood-pulp and copper-to mention only a few items-are produced for the foreign market. . . ." Author of this exposition is ruddy President Warren Lee Pierson of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, official guardian and nursemaid of this enormous trade. Last week his bank made one loan, was at work on another, which heralded a new spurt in efforts to help the U. S. exporter...
...Awaited a test of the constitutionality of the new AAA as it applies to tobacco. The five-month-old crop law was designed to keep up prices by sales quota for each tobacco region. On all tobacco sold over the quota there are penalty taxes of 50% of the market price or 3? a Ib. if the excess tobacco sold goes for less than 6?. Last week saw the opening of 1938 tobacco auctions in Georgia and Florida with the crop larger than last year (88,047,000 Ib.) and substantially higher than the quotas. Angry planters in both States...