Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern corporations potent in politics. Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham was one of the two Republicans whose vote change caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate...
...order," declared Scot MacDonald in a potent manifesto to the press. "Taking the industry as a whole it requires a far more active co-operative organization so that the skill of the operatives, the natural advantages of the county of Lancashire and its inherited opportunities in reputation and market may be used to the utmost under modern conditions...
Williamstown. Dr. Theodor Emanuel Gugenheim Gregory of the University of London, Faculty of Economics, complained: "The New York stock market has resumed its historic role as a disturber of the economic peace of the world...
Seven Railroads: 1) Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rose from 197¼ to 275, a gain of 77¼ points. On the basis of 2,416,293 shares of stock outstanding, this was an increase of $186,658,634 in the market value of the company's common shares. 2) Chesapeake & Ohio rose from 218½ to 274, a gain by similar calculations of $65,542,170. 3) Great Northern preferred,* from 111 to 123½ or $31,193,325. 4) New York Central, from 188 5/8 to 241¾, or $246,362,682. 5) New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...banquet celebrated Mr. Weber's election as eighth vice president and executive councilman of the American Federation of Labor. Among the celebrants were printers, upholsterers, teamsters, longshoremen, actors, men who play the oboe, others who play the market. Mr. Weber had news to impart about the ousting of cinema theatre orchestras by the "talkies," which constitutes Organized Music's most pressing problem (TIME...