Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army Commander-in-Chief Adolf Hitler made public on the day of the market break a decree providing in detail for army billeting and requisitions in Germany in case of war. "The common weal takes precedence over all private gain," says this decree; army officers "may demand from any person subject to this law that he permit the use of objects he owns or holds for safe keeping, or that he transfer his rights to movable objects" such as automobiles or trucks. Payment for services required of civilians is to be made only "in so far as the services cannot...
This decree, coordinating and bringing up to date ordinances dating in Austria back to 1897, in Germany back to 1868, did not make bullish reading for German investors. They remember how in 1914 much German smart money took its prof its and got out of the market just before the War. Nazi newsorgans attributed last week's break to: 1) turning of securities into cash by German firms desirous of raising further working capital amid the Rearmament scramble; 2) forced sales by Jews squeezed in Vienna and elsewhere in Germany by fresh "Aryanization" measures, one of which excludes Jewish...
...independents except upon hard terms. 2) That they insist on block-booking, full-line forcing, high rentals. 3) That as a result, independents are being driven out of business, new competitors are effectively forestalled; independent theatres cannot exercise free choice of films; independent producers find it virtually impossible to market their films; new capital investment is discouraged; theatre patrons in any given community must take whatever films are handed to them; "there is no opportunity for new forms of artistic expression which are not approved by those in control of the major companies...
...Ostruga, Yugoslavia, three English tourists from Chelmsford, Essex, impulsively bought brides in the marriage market, married them in the local Orthodox Church. Sosta Stankovich, matchmaker, craftily charged them tourist prices. Prettiest bride. Miliza Radosavlgevich, went for $400. Ordinary price for an Ostruga bride...
...Jersey's Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett to ask what rules governed the sale of the eerie dessert. Last week. Commissioner Burnett promptly banned its manufacture and sale because "liquorized ice cream is attractive to children." But Distiller Pitchenik is not interested in the child market, still hopes to get his dish onto hotel and night-club menus, where it would be served in place of a cordial, act as a "combination of cocktail and dessert," contain all the elements of both "with the ingredients of a milk punch" thrown...