Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stearman Company is now capitalized at $600,000 and is producing one of the most refined commercial biplanes on the market. This ship is flown by the air lines, by the government and is very popular with people of wealth who take up aviation as a sport...
...consist of coffee. So long as the bean is crushed and drunk, the ideal-for-coffee-growing southern states of Brazil will remain rich-if overproduction is avoided. During the overproduction crisis of 1906 the Government of Brazil bought and held 8,500,000 bags of coffee, lest the market be gutted. Unlike most such desperate measures, this one succeeded. Since then the increasing U.S. taste for coffee has spelled...
Speculator Smith had committed the imprudence of buying at the top of a tremendous bull market which last week came to an end. In the last three days of trading the market value of listed securities fell off $6,000,000,000. The average of 100 representative stocks (compiled by the New York Times), fell off 15.61 points. In the last 10 minutes of the week's trading, Radio broke 20 points, in the last three days market valuation of radio stock went from...
What caused the collapse? The immediate inciting force appears to have been "tight" money. Loans to brokers had advanced to $5,394,590,000. Call money had climbed higher and higher until it reached 12%. At this point, apparently, the market, so long inflated, suddenly realized its unsound condition. Once the decline had begun, there was nothing to stop it. Indeed, as it continued, forced selling by many small operators with dwindling margins accelerated its fall...
...week closed with no signs of a rally. There were stories of a bankers' conference in the offices of J. P. Morgan-stories that the bankers might support the market to prevent a stock panic. It was thought that "bargain hunters" (shrewd traders who pick up stocks at low prices after a deflation) would start a buying movement that would rally the market. On the whole, the bear market was considered a local hurricane, not at all reflecting the condition of the nation's soundly prosperous industrial life...