Word: investors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refunding the 3¾s with 38. His trip was a cost-cutting spree. Hiring one of the largest U. S. investment bankers, hard-working First Boston Corp., he pared the usual two or more point commission to if points, a spread nearly as small as that secured by investor-popular American Telephone & Telegraph securities. He kept his own legal fees at rock bottom, watched those of his underwriters. To cut printing bills, he ordered only 47,500 copies of the 70-page prospectus, an almost skimpy number for selling 108,000 $1,000 bonds. It is rumored he even...
...Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking minority member of the House Agriculture committee, had come to compound the Willkie farm speech at Omaha. Observers held that the result was in many ways Willkie's most effective speech yet. The theme: that the problems of the farmer, laborer, businessman, investor, consumer are all one problem; that prosperity cannot come to one group only; that the national welfare depends on a unified attack, a unified consideration...
Said Willkie: "The farmer, the worker, the investor and the businessman have been like four horses attached to the same evener, the reins in the hands of a reckless driver, and all horses plunging spasmodically in different directions...
Signing the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act which will put investment trusts and counselors under SEC supervision, Candidate Roosevelt called the bill to witness "this Administration's vigorous program . . . to protect the investor." Sure that "we have come a long way from the bleak days of 1929." the President voiced a pious hope: "It is a source of satisfaction that businessmen have at last come to recognize that it is this Administration's purpose to aid the honest businessman...
Last week many an investor figured that the next production upswing will be led not by consumer-goods industries, but by the long stagnant, overcapacitied, capital-goods industries (see p. 71). Backing up this belief, the following capital-goods companies rehearsed their roles for a rearming economy...