Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increased prices to the American consumer about 4 billion dollars a year--at least 87 per cent or which goes to American manufacturers in higher prices. The Republican party has deliberately sacrificed the American farmer to the manufacturer. The farmer is compelled to buy on this protected market while he is obliged by the nature of his crops to sell on a world competitors market which protective tariffs a mile high cannot control...
...presence of a wife in an insane asylum. Though he will not divorce the companion of his early struggles, nevertheless he loves Rita and has hit upon a novel way of bringing her to her knees. It turns out to be Haggerty who engineered the corner in the stock market which is threatening to ruin her father. Since Haggerty is the only one who can save the old man, Rita sends for him and informs him defiantly that though she does not love him, still he holds the winning cards, and if he will save her father, she will...
...interesting features of the stock market is the frequency with which its price movements contradict both the optimism and pessimism expressed concerning the future of business by corporation officials...
Just such a difference of opinion now exists regarding the automobile industry. The stock market has recently assumed a somewhat sceptical tone on this subject; stocks of prominent motor companies have experienced marked drops. In Wall Street the talk is mostly of overproduction, inflation by sales on part-payment, diminishing margin of profit, increased and bitter competition and similar gloomy matters. On the other hand, the trade in its announcements and its advertising fails to share this melancholy tone. Alfred P. Sloan, Vice President of General Motors, declared sales of his cars to dealers this Spring would be 20% greater...
...statement of course applies to a single company, generally recognized to be in good condition, and it does not deal with a future further away than this Spring. But by the beginning of Summer, it will be possible to determine whose predicitions are best-those of the stock market or those of automobile companies...