Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall goods was at hand. Labor predicted a "victory...
...everyone knows, U. S. steel makers may not combine to control the domestic market. They may combine, however, under the provisions of the Export Trade act (Webb-Pomerene law), to undersell foreign mills in foreign markets. Last week, the two principal producers, U. S. Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel Corp., controlling over 75% of the American export trade, proposed through their export subsidiaries* the formation of an association to market all U. S. iron and steel products abroad...
...Five Years. If a man invested $100 in each of the six following automobile stocks on Jan. 2, 1923, he would now have (present market value, plus dividends...
...Stock market prices broke last week. It was expected. Many causes can be adduced. But the chief is the fact that speculators had abandoned thought of the relation of security prices to the earnings of underlying business ventures...
Millions of paper profits disappeared. On one day New York Stock Exchange brokers handled 5,052,790 shares (a record number), New York Curb Market brokers...