Word: selling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more gambling than the purchase and quick resale of lots. . . . The amount of margin upon which a man trades does not determine the gambling element. ... A man can buy stock for a small cash payment . . . and there is no reason to call him a gambler because he sells the stock shortly after at a profit. ... If the trading in stocks . . . is immoral, then the church should eliminate from her membership the heads of stock exchange houses, clerks, bookkeepers . . . the men and women who buy and sell stock...
...Hannon, general manager of the Ohio Equity Exchange Co., "only woman executive in coopera- tive marketing," named the new creation ?Farmers' National Grain Corp. Organized grain groups will subscribe to its stock, elect its directors and officials The corporation, thus privately owned, will buy grain from its members, sell it nationally to the best advantage. To it the Federal Farm Board will make operating advances from its $500,000,000 loan fund...
...after the War, went job-hunting to Berlin, signed on with Siemens-Schuckert, dazzled his German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...
Shenandoah Corp. was broadly empowered to "buy, sell, trade in and hold stocks and securities of any kind . . . participate in syndicates and underwritings . . . exercise such other of its charter powers as its Board of Directors may from time to time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams...
...British Ford. The Seven does not, of course, refer to cylinders but to horsepower. The Austin is only 9 ft. 2 in. long, 3 ft. 10 in. wide and weighs only 950 lbs. Production date and price have not been announced, but it is understood that the Austin will sell for less than $500. Financing of the U. S. company will be handled by Bulkley, Vallance & Co., of Manhattan...