Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content to be known as an operating genius alone. Through an elaborate series of investment trusts and holding companies, he proceeded to acquire stock control of those same utilities which he already controlled through good management. Because others were bidding against him, he paid fancy prices for almost every share he bought. And then, with well-publicized high-pressure campaigns, he sold them to the public, retaining voting control. Many buyers were poor, many were Insull utility customers who thought their operating wizard could do no wrong. But Insull built his pyramid on the erroneous theory that...
Next day ticker tapes, to which the augurs had returned, began humming. When the Stock Exchange closed at three, market followers totted up the day's business: turnover, 1,619,800 shares; net gains, 1 to 4 points a share. Day after, many stocks reached a new high...
...know how it will end," Benjamin Nathan Cardozo wrote in 1933. "I know that it has been an interesting time to live in, an interesting time in which to do my little share in translating into law the social and economic forces that clamor for expression." Having lived his time and done his share, as member and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he died last week at 68, of a diseased heart...
...Business designed its price policies primarily for monopolistic and profit-hogging reasons. The new Brookings book, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published...
While Electric Bond & Share took the fight to the Supreme Court, only to lose the first round last spring (TIME, April 4), United Corp. tried to persuade SEC to let it reorganize as an investment trust. SEC turned down no less than seven such proposals (TIME, Feb. 7), and after the Supreme Court's decision, United had to register with SEC after...