Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Livingston Clarkson looks rather like the young men who play football in college, sell bonds, put on weight as soon as they leave, and who appear at the halfway post, vigorous, talkative, ingratiating, and purring (some hours after the market has closed), with pleasure over ice & soda. It is an outward resemblance only, because Robert Clarkson possesses the importance which these popinjays pretend. He did not go to college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage...
...Shell is agitating for tariff restrictions in India which will virtually oust Standard from the great Indian market...
...Shell invites war because Standard of N. Y. buys oil from Russia. Russian oil on the Indian market competes closely with Rumanian oil shipped there by Shell. Shell refuses to buy Russian oil on moral grounds, saying that the Soviet Government's confiscation of oil properties in Russia was thievery. Placards have been posted in Shell offices: "We do not sell stolen...
...Standard of N. Y. sees no reason for cutting its own throat by rejecting Russian oil, the U. S. State Department has approved trade with Russia. Standard of N. Y., having no Rumanian oil rights, must buy Russian oil to maintain its position in the Eastern market. Standard will fight Shell...
...will be used as the basis for choice and in the broad sense in which it was used last year. It includes painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, textiles, pottery, glassware and bronzes. It is asked that no student hesitate to submit any object which he owns because of its low market value, since the exhibition will be composed of objects of intrinsic art worth, which term very often is in no direct relationship to monetary value...