Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...other important piece of legislation (outside of the standard 1932 appropriation bills) was brought before the Senate last week: the House bill to "give $150,000,000 more to the Federal Farm Board, thus tacitly approving its wheat-market operations. Such operations had been approved and called a success by a meeting of farm-organization heads and agricultural legislators before Congress convened. Despite broad objections by Senator Borah, who wants the export debenture form of farm aid, and specific objections by Senators Black and Tydings, who tried to stop the Board's trading in commodity futures and on margin...
...France still has a form of likin in the octroi or market tax collected on goods brought into big cities. In Italy, II Ducc abolished a similar tax (dazio consumo) year...
...Bank of Italy whence sprang Transamerica. He said, startlingly, that the syndicate should give protection ". . . against such drives ... as have been experienced since the middle of the year 1928, at which time and since a certain California competitor has been a most active participant in the group conducting the market operations. . . . May I urge . . . stockholders to put up a united front against the enemy...
...bank's depositors, many of whom were in line by 9 a. m., the news brought some hysteria. To the Stock Exchange, unsettled all week by fear of this development, the news brought uncertainty, alternate selling and buying. To the market in bank shares it brought much selling. If the Bronx merchant who had tried to sell his Bank of United States stock the day before had succeeded, he would have received 11½a share. After the closing, he would have been lucky to get more than $3. Last year this stock sold...
Much uneasiness was caused last week by the continued decline in the bond market. Second-grade bonds have dropped in alarming fashion; the best bonds have slumped at an angle almost unprecedented. One reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash...