Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's approval can make loans from 52% up to 75% of the parity price. Like the "nonrecourse loans" currently being given, on cotton, these loans are in effect Government payments in advance to the farmer for his crop at a fixed price almost certainly higher than the market price he will get when he sells it. They need not be repaid and bear no interest, although if the farmer stores his crop in a Government warehouse he may be liable for storage charges. A referendum on a marketing quota will be held when supplies reach...
Public pulse-takers are, nevertheless, agreed that an enormous interest in drawing, painting and modeling has recently arisen in the U. S. Whatever its source, this interest constitutes an economic demand. To meet it, there have been at least two ambitious attempts in the past six months to market excellent pictures at extremely low prices. Each was designed to do for the art of museums what radio has done for the art of symphonies-to bring it into U. S. homes. Last week each reached the stage of significant news...
...Phaidon Press is the 15-year-old creation of a fiery little Viennese bibliophile, Bela Horovitz. Beginning in 1925 to produce art books on a large scale for the German market, he wratched his sales boom for several years, then decline after Hitler came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because...
Until last year this caused the cartel no great worry because all three non-members exported only a fraction of their production, leaving the cartel in command of an estimated 90% of the export market. With the current recession in the U. S., however, and the consequent falling off of domestic steel orders, certain U. S. makers have been dumping steel abroad, undercutting cartel prices and taking advantage of the steel hunger of nations preparing for war. For the first eleven months of 1937 U. S. iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted...
...year, consumption last year was only 120 lb.. a difference equivalent to 5,600,000 head of cattle. Normal cattle population of the U. S.: 65,000,000. I. A. M. P. plans a nationwide advertising campaign to make people eat up the surplus. Theme: "Market supplies of livestock are such that there is an abundance of meat of improved quality available at attractive prices...