Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to do. Tighter controls would have invited abuse in a country in which political privilege is hard to control. It would have stimulated the already brisk smuggling trade and set up an even more complex bureaucracy than Mexico already has. And it would have created a black market in peso-dollar trading...
...resumed, another time-out had to be called. By the end of the session the volume had reached a whopping 146,000 shares, nearly 10% of all shares traded that day. And Curtiss-Wright common was up 2¼ points to 10⅜ a share. Next day, despite the market's general decline (see below), Curtiss-Wright edged up to 10⅜% of on a much greater volume of 194,400 shares. The stock ended the otherwise distressful week at a fancy...
...abrupt settlement of an issue that had plagued Curtiss-Wright Corp. for months. The company had come out of the war with a mattressfull of money-$100 million-but it was short of postwar business. The management, which thought there was only a "limited and unprofitable" postwar market for its aircraft engines and planes, wanted to hold the cash to tide the company over the uncertain future. But a group of vociferous stockholders last winter complained that the cash in the mattress alone was about three times the market value of its stock. They wanted some of the cash paid...
...steel's wage-price hikes, the special congressional session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and the Berlin crisis (see INTERNATIONAL) sent stocks skidding on New York's Big Board. In five days the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 5.72 points to 185.90, just above the June low. When the market opened this week, it plunged again in the worst break in 20 months. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 4.70 points...
...cradle of the American revolution gradually became the couch of gouty conservatism. "Its dominant mind," remarked Van Wyck Brooks, "was a dry seabeach where all the creatures of history had deposited their shells." And its last great thinker, Henry Adams, sadly noted that "Boston seemed to offer no market for educated labour...