Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightening money market did not, as some thought, reflect business pessimism; it showed confidence in the future. Early this year, with exaggerated recession talk rampant, there was a tendency for investors to get out of the stock market and seek the security of bonds and their guaranteed return. This made money easier to borrow, helped check the rise in interest rates. But the return of confidence and the recovery in the stock market checked the shift; even though the Dow-Jones index of the yields on top bonds was about 4.40% v. 4.50% for the blue chips, many investors...
...competition for available funds, many borrowers decided to wait. The U.S. Public Housing Administration, which borrows funds for subsidized-rent public-housing projects, announced it would be out of the bond market until fall unless money loosened up considerably. Southern California Edison Co., after taking a look at the market, withdrew a $30 million preferred-stock issue until the time for borrowing was more propitious...
...sell his last major oil and gas property, a 970,000-acre concession in Bolivian hinterlands, to Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., Union Oil & Gas Corp. of La., Murphy Corp. and Monsanto's Lion Oil division. Texan McCarthy lost heavily on Bolivian wildcatting, did not have enough funds to market oil after he found it. He will be lucky to break even on deal to give him $1,500,000 outright, another $1,500,000 if group can market...
...will be drilled 3,000 ft. under waters of Lake Erie near Cleveland. Geologists estimate gas can be tapped half-mile offshore (Canadians have long been drawing gas from under north side of lake). Ohio will advertise for lease bids in about three months, will take one-eighth of market value of any oil or gas that is found...
...time of acquisition or subsequently-to gain preferential treatment. All that is required, if this case is to be our guide, is that some court in some future year be persuaded that a 'reasonable probability' then exists that an advantage over competitors in a narrowly construed market may be obtained as a result of a stock interest." Moreover, added Burton, the decision marked the first time the Clayton Act has been applied to a vertical acquisition, i.e., a case where a company gets substantial control of a customer rather than a competitor...