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Word: marketeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odds & Ends, 1) an appropriation of $4,000,000 for four regional research laboratories to investigate new uses, markets, and by-products for farm commodities; 2) the appropriation of $20,000,000 unexpended balance from the $500,000,000 Soil Conservation Act appropriation to finance a new Federal Crop Insurance Corporation empowered to issue policies to farmers against crop disaster; 3) a provision to limit payments to any one farmer in any one State to $10,000; 4) the recognition in principle of outright payments to farmers to make up the difference between market and "parity prices," which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second AAA | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...investor who held 2% of Commodity Corp.'s outstanding shares on December 31 thus owned 2% less costs of each of these tangible properties, could sell out at liquidating value whenever he desired. If such a stockholder can find no buyer on the open market, Commodity Corp. is committed to buying back his shares. Major investing difference from a securities investment trust is that commodities do not pay dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...October the President appointed his son, James Roosevelt, to act as (1 contact man between himself and the heads of the Administrative agencies, 2 radio commissioner for Texas, 3 special investigator to prove that big business caused the stock market break, 4 special mediator in Labor disputes involving the rail industry, 5 U. S. Ambassador-at-Large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...bolster the stock market, the Government (1 asked the big banks to buy stocks as they did in the 1929 crash, 2 reduced margin requirements, 3 offered to lend RFC funds to speculators, 4 called in several issues of Federal bonds, 5 urged insurance companies to invest more funds in stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...decline in the price of stocks within three months beginning last August (1 brought the markets to the lowest point of all time, 2 was about the same as the decline in 1929, 3 brought the market to the lowest point since 1929, 4 was comparable to the drop in 1921's was the swiftest decline of U. S. business and finance in thirty years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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