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With regard to royalty and all news in this line, I have only to ask why a normal interest in personages who head the various European aristocracies should be considered cheap...
Periods of cheap money are usually accompanied by mergers and changes in corporate ownership. The basic reason for this is the readiness of the public to purchase securities at such times, plus the relatively high prices reached by securities when interest rates are low. The U. S. is apparently moving into another such merger period as 1900-06, except that today enthusiasm is more tempered with wisdom of ex- perience. But the figures are larger, except for the mammoth Steel Corporation merger of 1901. There are still few other billion-dollar corporations, yet in the last few years a large...
...Dodges were, however, anxious to build a higher-class car, in opposition to Ford's continual and exclusive interest in the cheap vehicle. Finally, in 1914, they retired from the Ford Motor Co., later cashing in their investment at a colossal profit, and set up for them- selves as the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. In the higher-price car field, they at once encountered keen competition. Yet their experience, engineering skill and ability in marketing their product soon led to a second success even surpassing their part in the first...
...reason for "chains"? Large-volume sales, therefore large-volume purchases, therefore low-priced purchases, therefore good profits; united management, therefore efficiency, therefore more profits; an advertisement for one of a chain is an advertisement for all, therefore cheap advertising, therefore still more profits; much profit, therefore prolificacy...
From the point of view of a good many people, however, TIME transgresses good taste in two particulars. First, in reporting the doings of royalty, both crowned and uncrowned, it makes a cheap bid for cheap popularity, with cheap readers...