Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with pernicious anemia,' responded as well as patients respond to liver extract. The discovery is important. For the first time, a laboratory has produced from commonly occurring bacteria a substance with anemia-treating properties, and pernicious anemia patients are freed from the ups & downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein factor has proved that it clears up the blood damage in pernicious anemia. Still to be answered: does it repair the nerve damage that is frequently part...
...thought that the results of Snyder's action would prove much of a damper on the inflated market. The cost of borrowing would have to be much higher to be effective. As for the rediscount rise, its effect would only be psychological. Borrowings by member banks from the Federal Reserve Banks are relatively insignificant, at less than $300 million. With excess reserves of over $1 billion, member banks were not likely to raise the volume by much, nor feel any actual pinch because of the higher charges...
Apples. Apples, which gyrated in price from 64? a bushel in 1937 to $2.96 in 1945, upsetting many a grower's cart, were admitted to futures trading on Chicago's Mercantile Exchange. By offering buyers a chance to hedge in the futures market, growers hoped to steady prices for this year's crop (estimate: 100,445,000 bushels...
That was not all. The day before the issue's registration took effect, K-F, through Otis & Co., quietly bought enough of its own stock to stabilize the market at $13.50 a share, and thus assure a good sale of the new issue that was to be priced at $13 to the public. But Eaton, the SEC said, had tipped off dealers and customers. Result: they unloaded stock at $13.50 which they figured to buy back next day at $13 or less. That forced K-F to pay out a whopping $2.5 million for stabilization...
...Market. Increased material and labor costs, plus higher taxes, had put the squeeze on Paris designers. Although Lucien Lelong blamed ill health when he closed his shop last month, friends thought his health could have held up if his firm had not-like many others-been operating in the red. Couturiers agreed that survival could be assured only by establishing a rich new market...