Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, among the Moslems of Kasba Mechta who had paid for their failure to help the rebels, Olivier Dubos was a familiar figure. He acted as welfare officer, schoolteacher and doctor rolled into one. made a point of showing up in remote villages on market days, alone and unarmed. "In the cause of pacification we have got to take risks." he said...
...which had been around $500 million for five months, down to $403 million. Though the Fed's moves brought immediate talk of rising interest rates and a return to tight money, the actions were largely psychological, designed more to check the inflationary fever that has hit the securities market (see below) than to restrict credit itself...
Shaking off warnings from the Federal Reserve-and many a market analyst-investors continued to buy stocks and dump bonds last week in a speculative drive that sent Dow-Jones industrials up 2.15 points to 508.28, within four points of the year's high. While confidence in the nation's overall economic health is a factor in the rise, soaring stock prices have outdistanced foreseeable earnings. A bigger factor is the fear of inflation, which has grown so strong that many investors break previously accepted rules in their race to cover themselves against a possible decline...
...expected to keep pace with inflation. Instead, they are bidding for manufacturing firms, whose costs in a serious inflation will probably rise faster than retail prices, offering no protection to profits. So heavy is the buying that many blue chips have been priced almost out of the market. More and more investors are turning to low-priced speculative issues as repositories for their money. Such stocks represent only 6% of the value of all issues listed, but they have accounted for 37.2% of the trading activity on the New York Stock Exchange this year...
...first market corner in several decades occurred on Wall Street and caught short sellers in a classic trap-without stock to deliver unless they paid fantastic prices. The corner was nothing like those when Morgan and Harriman battled for the Northern Pacific, gobbling up so much stock that shorts had to bid Northern Pacific from $170 to $1,000 in one day. But it was bad enough. In a single day, the stock of E. L .Bruce Co., a small Memphis hardwood flooring manufacturer, jumped $100 a share after the American Stock Exchange ruled that short sellers had to cover...