Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before 45,000 cheering Sudetens in the market square, bespectacled, 40-year-old Führer Henlein, onetime gymnasium instructor whose figure is now assuming Göring-like proportions, mounted a black-draped podium and addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn...
...payment of debts, dragged the skeleton of Britain's $4,000,000,000 War debt to the U. S. out of its seven-year closet. Last week. 37-year-old Conservative M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who five months ago accused President Roosevelt of precipitating the current stock-market decline, appealed to the Commons to send a "really authoritative mission" to Washington to negotiate a War debt settlement, "if necessary to restore economic prosperity...
Plans to put Mystery Control-equipped sets on the market in a month are tentative because of labor trouble at the Philadelphia plant. C.I.O. pickets were on hand for the Chicago convention...
...negligible facilities for producing flat-rolled steel, Ludlum sells about 50% of its output (wire, bars, etc.) to the automobile industry, the rest to manufacturers of machine tools, oil refining and aircraft equipment, stainless steel building products. Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called...
...jargon-confirming the action of the railroad average (which passed its April high) and indicating an intermediate upswing. Brokerage boardrooms fluttered with rumors that Robert Rhea of Colorado Springs, best-known interpreter of The Theory, had said upward breaking of 121 would definitely mark the end of the bear market. This was denied by High Priest Rhea. At any rate, industrials closed the week still below 121. And there was no theory or index that said business had definitely landed on a shelf, or reached bottom...