Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speculators' answer was that, good economist though Secretary Jardine may be, he has no idea how sensitive the cotton market...
...selling began. In one day's trading, cotton prices dropped off $5.50 to $6 per bale. With 20 million bales the prospective total of their current crop, U. S. cotton growers found themselves some $90,000,000 poorer overnight. Speculators on the "long" side of a previously rising market found themselves sore stranded...
...trial charged with corrupt office-getting; while the Mayor of Chicago roamed the Pacific Coast trying to play a part in national politics; while the Mayor of Los Angeles bestirred himself to defeat a movement for his recall; while this mayor stayed at home and that mayor went to market, the youngest and spriest mayor of them all, James John Walker of New York, brought to a climax in Paris an American legend of Insouciance Abroad...
About 1820, becoming a member of the stock exchange meant an initiation fee of $25. By the end of the Civil War the initiation was $3,000. By 1869 membership was bought at the market price of a seat (there were 1,060 in all). The first year this went into effect the price of seats jumped from $3,000 to $7,500. In 1879 the number of seats was raised to 1,100, as at present. Since then there has been only the vast increase in security values and public participation to account for the rise in seat prices...
...Gillette Co. had traced the bogus blades after hearing that the South American market was flooded with them. Eight suspects were held for questioning...