Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Survey. Before the actual meeting began, the Business Survey Conference is sued its long-awaited report through Chairman Barnes. Although headlined in many papers as "better trade conditions in all lines portrayed," the survey was far from that conclusive, perhaps was a cause of the declining stock market which followed it. Even the four points which Mr. Barnes said were the significant phases of the survey could not be said to be bullish by themselves: "1) American industry is fully carrying out the construction program forecast by them last December when the Conference met; 2) A manifest adjustment of production...
...available to consumers at 14?, 22% cheaper than it had been offered since April 1929. But it was knowledge that consumers had started no rush to buy. Instead, viewing the large surplus stocks of copper on hand they waited, hinted that perhaps at 12? they might consider entering the market...
Incubus. But the Farm Board and its two wheat-dealing agencies, Farmers National Grain Corp. and Grain Stabilization Corp., were much less interested in the 1930 crop which they have promised not to touch on the market, than they were in the great 1929 crop, an incubus under which they still labored. The two grain corporations, interlocking in personnel and activity, had bought in some 45 or 50 million bushels of wheat, of which 15 million were futures for May delivery (TIME. March 10). Wheat bins were already choked in Chicago and Minneapolis. Delivery date had almost come. Chairman Legge...
...approach-none too assured-toward the method he developed in his later books. Paramount hack writers have made it better on the whole with the changes they introduce. Benson, who gets murdered, is a stockbroker. He has ruined several of his customers by selling them out in a market slump and each of the ruined traders has some other, private, reason for killing him. One evening they all meet at Benson's place in the country, where Detective Philo Vance is also a guest. Benson is killed and his murder later detected. William Powell, who has been Philo Vance...
...that the Amherst money market is responding well to the bullish forces with a best for the more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...