Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a few warning twinges, the glossy blister of high prices in the New York stock market burst explosively at the prick of the rail merger ruling at Washington (see p. 28). Widespread pain was experienced by the speculating body public, as leading rail, motor, industrial and chain-store stocks oozed out 10, 20, 30, even 50, even 80 points, even 100 points.* The nerves of finance carried the anguish to distant cities...
...this way both the bondholder and the Treasury will save the commissions which they would have to pay if the bonds were sold on the open market...
...deer. They are the hardiest deer, are immune to hoof and mouth disease, Texas fever, lumpy jaw and black tongue. They have "a quiet and contented nature." They dress heavier than any other meat animal. Their meat is considered by many an epicure superior to any meat on the market. It is virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh has a third more nerve and energy-building qualities, a third less fattening qualities, than beef...
...years ago, he went partners with one L. C. Noble, into the firm of Heinz & Noble, to bottle vegetables for the market. This firm grew, changed names, moved to Pittsburgh, expanded. In 1888, at 44 Henry John retired for a season. He had done some traveling, wanted to do more, eventually had seen the continents. From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after...
...consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured until 1917, when the Remington Arms Co. "lured" Mr. Fuller away by an offer of more salary and a longheaded, foreseeing proposition of a share in profits on any cash registers he might devise for his new company and they might market.* At that time the Remington people were beyond their necks in War work. Mr. Fuller, always the inventor, immediately improved some of their processes and output. But he kept his chief attention on cash registers; by the end of the War had created a new type of machine, towards...