Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days," he continued, "a sale of 100,000 copies of a piece is considered extraordinary partly because of the great number of song, writers in business who did not write ten years ago. There are so many pieces on the market that only the unusual ones prove of large selling value...
English moving picture producers have announced their intention of glorifying the British empire and incidentally of reorganizing their industry. Up to this time English films have been a drug on the market--even the English market. The populace, accustomed to circuses with their bread, cried for American productions. The populace shall be answered, for now England is to be blessed with a Hollywood, only, as the promoters hasten to add, it will be much better than Hollywood. Its location is to be Wembley, home of the recent exposition. And to Wembley the English players will betake themselves, each ready...
...corporation's 160,000 shareholders sent in their voting proxies as usual. But these 250 wanted actually to hear their own voices voting to increase their capitalization from $868,583,600 to $1,071,904,000. This nominally approximates $203,321,000 on the common stock. The market value of the new shares, however, is close...
...high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent mention of "bucket shops." The play itself suffers from diffusion and repetition, though, like the stock market, it has its moments. The author, one James N. Rosenberg, is a bankruptcy lawyer...
...football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors in 1920, he has since made himself many times a millionaire by stock market skill; market quotations are ham-and-eggs to him. Wrote the Time's writer slyly: "Shares of the Durant Motor...