Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial commodity...
Just as other power men have become newspaper owners to ensure a market for their papermaking subsidiaries (TIME, April 22 et seq.}, so the Insull interests were entering actually into the textile trade to ensure "large numbers of new power customers." Brother Martin Insull said: "The primary object is to serve the textile industry in New England, better business there and increase employment...
...measured a record-breaking turnover one day last week on the New York Curb Market. It was about a quarte-million shares over the previous high total (June 28). Utility trading accounted for the new high, 895.100 shares of Niagara Hudson Power turning over during...
...represents last week's loans-to-brokers. It was a new high record in brokers' loans with a $95,000,000 gain for the week. It was also considerably higher than the figures prevailing during the Reserve Board v. Stock Market excitement last February and March...
...reasons why so much money is being poured into the stock market is that there are many new stocks to buy. Privately held, closed corporations are issuing stock, taking the public into partnership. Corporations that have long been publicly -owned are undertaking new financing for expansion purposes. And the merger trend-outstanding movement in current industry-continues as an important element in Industry's insatiable appetite for money. Of last week's new deals of various kinds, the following were of particular interest...