Word: marketer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vagabond King. There appeared last season a strong market for good operetta, well costumed and well sung. To serve this trade, an old romance, If I Were King, was dug up, dusted off and set to some particularly good music by Rudolph Friml. It is a story of France under Louis XI, when Francois Villon, poet and leader of the underworld, was presented with the throne for 24 hours. He loves a noble lady and he defies the force of hostile Burgundy encamped without the gates. The story seemed ideally suited to this type of entertainment; the characters generally suited...
Relative stability and prosperity in general business continue, with a tendency to watch the money markets for signs of overexpansion or overenthusiasm. As yet, however, the money market gives little or no sign of such developments or the anticipation of them. Nervous stock traders bandy rumors of a rise in the Reserve rate, but nothing happens...
Benoni trembled and was more wretched when Trader Mack of Sirilund sent for him. Mack was Rosa's godfather and with all his property he could do a man much good or evil. When Mack merely suggested that Benoni go to buying herring for market with money from his lucky seining shares, Benoni eagerly promised he would and bought the necessary barrels and salt from Mack...
...what you please, impartial arbitration is the fairest way to settle disputes. Our differences will in the end be arbitrated in one way or another. Why not now before there is more loss in wages and the market for anthracite goes to other fuels...
There has been no development in the money situation to call for extensive security liquidation. Stock-market funds continue abundant and cheap. Likewise, stock brokers report customers' margins greater than at almost any other time in the recent history of Wall Street. From these facts, "market diagnosticians"-as they sometimes call themselves-generally consider the recent decline a reaction in a "bull" market rather than the inauguration of a "bear" market...