Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales, in return for being given 4,000,000 of the 7,000,000 bales the Government now holds for cotton loans. This maneuver, according to Senator Bankhead. would leave only 18,000,000 bales on the market for 1939, give cotton prices a salutary shot...
...McKesson & Robbins, Ltd. . . . shifts and changes are in the making . . . as indicated by many planetary influences. . . . Do not speculate." This advice to investors appeared last July in American Astrology Magazine. Last week many bewildered McKesson & Robbins investors. whose holdings had just depreciated on the market by some $35,000,000, must have been ripe for conversion to some such occult science as astrology...
...kind as well as cash the fine levied on them because of the murder of a German diplomat in Paris. Stocks, bonds, mining royalties, real estate were accepted at their value as of November 30 because Nazis feared the effects if Jews dumped their holdings on the market. Some Jews were temporarily released from concentration camps so they could pay up, but it was rumored the payment of the first quarter of the $400,000,000 fine was inadequate and the assessment on the Jews would be increased from 20% to 25% of their assets...
Concretely, the election changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
...said to have made $300,000 out of General Investment Corp. in 1936. A group headed by ex-President George Devendorf of General Investment wanted to sell the corporation 20,000 shares of its preferred stock at $87.50 a share but was told the company was not in the market. Wallace Groves said he would buy it personally, and did, but not before he had resold it to General Investment at $102 a share...