Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increased interest such presses are arousing due to the fact that they are producing a wider distribution of publications. Formerly they were forced to struggle along as best they could with the handicap of printing only very heavy material and scholarly works of research which naturally had a small market...
Stockmarketeers gasped and gaped. It was not so much that Mr. Raskob had exploded the current myth of the Raskob-Du Pont pool. It was not impossible to believe that he had been out of the market all summer. But that the great bull should have turned into a bear was a blow which could only be described as catastrophic. Seeking a parallel, traders suggested that Nominee Hoover might issue such a statement as this: "My name has been frequently mentioned as being prominently identified with the Republican party. As a matter of fact I have never been a Republican...
...deference to the death of a bull, birth of a bear, the market sagged a few respectful points. But the same inexplic- able strength which fortified it against the 5,400 bankers remained to repel Mr. Raskob's attack. The market recaptured its stride...
...clear to the layman, this threat was not misunderstood by fearful traders. It meant, in two words: "BROKERS' LOANS." And to emphasize the point, brokers' loans mounted last week to $4,569,978,000, highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...
...Archibald Young, governor of the entire Federal Reserve system.? As the Federal Reserve had taken the lead in the war on speculation, as the credit situation was the only real issue at Philadelphia, bankers waited with intense interest for what Governor Young might say. In Manhattan, the market was uneasy...