Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a simple development-like putting an eraser on the end of a pencil," said Inventor Valentine. Since it costs only $200 to equip a camera with the prism, the price is negligible by Hollywood standards and Mr. Valentine expects that his improvement will come into general...
...From 1921 to 1929 total industrial net profits rose sharply, but the price index dropped from...
...specializing in toilet tissue, developing its technology steadily, and leading the industry in price-cutting, Scott Paper Co. increased its dollar sales 19-fold between...
...Nourse is not so naïve, however, as to maintain that all price mistakes can be thus explained. As an example of "the way in which, under modern methods of finance capitalism, the business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...
...industrial bonds, was a Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) $50,000,000 issue of 15-year, 2¾% debentures and a$35,000,000 issue of serial notes yielding from 1¾% to 2½%. In early bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel...