Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City," London's financial district, opinions were divided. Some thought the move perfectly natural, as the London market was heavily depressed by industrial insecurity, slack trade, swamped by War loans and made expensive for borrowers by the recent return to a gold standard. Others naturally could not bear to see the U. S. taking the place of banker to the British Commonwealth of Nations. Neither was Australian opinion unanimously behind the move...
Some time ago, one John B. Bolton of Philadelphia invented a fabric out of which collars could be made. Shortly afterward, a soft collar was put on the market, advertised by thousands of brittle, frostily handsome young men who stared down at the great U. S. public from streetcar nooks and up at them from the back pages of magazines. It was called the Van Heusen collar. Forthwith, John B. Bolton of Philadelphia brought suit against one John M. Van Heusen of Jamaica Plain, Mass., to recover $6,000,000. Last week, the court awarded...
...declaring a 25% quarterly dividend, the First National has been put, temporarily at least, on a 100% dividend basis, where disbursements to stockholders are each year equal to the entire nominal capitalization of the institution. As a result, while par of First National shares is still only $100, the market price is now about $2,600 apiece...
...market for crude rubber has continued to rise, under the influence of light U. S. and British stocks, steady demand for the automobile trade and curtailed British production in the British plantations...
...late, the market has been conducted by professional traders rather than by the public. Now the trader can, in the long run, profit only by accumulating shares cheaply and selling out to the public at higher prices; or by selling short at high levels and buying in cheaply later on, when the public is panic-stricken. Both tactics have been tried repeatedly in the past few months; but, although traders have piped, the public refuses to dance. In consequence, the repeated spurts and reactions of highly speculative issues on the Exchange during recent weeks have had, for the, most part...