Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bread cast on the waters of the Manhattan Call Money Market has long since ceased to come back tenfold. Last week call money hit a low of 2% and an average of 3%, compared to a low of 7% and an average of 9% for the corresponding week of 1929. Easy money contributed to an increased activity in both the bond market and the stockmarket, bond sales on the Stock Exchange going to $115,372,500 against $77,834,600 for the previous week and only $50,589,000 for the week a year ago. It was the best bond...
Meanwhile steel production and freight car loadings-two vital indices of industrial activity-continued to decline. Orders from railroads, which had been keeping up steel production, were declining and the automobile business showed no sign of any throbbing life. The market closed the week in a "recession" brought about by unfavorable estimates, particularly from Western Union, of first quarter earnings...
From a natural gas standpoint the new company will rank with Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and Cities Service Co. It expects to market some 190,000,000,000 cu. ft. of natural gas in 1930. The operating gross revenue of its constituent companies, from natural gas alone, totaled $22,000,000 in 1929 and is expected to reach $26,000,000 in 1930. There also will be considerable revenue from oil, sulphur and gasoline operations. The territory served extends from St. Louis to Monterey, Mexico, including cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Fort Worth. Beaumont, Houston...
Country Club, where Gene Sarazen won the national open in 1922. He was one of the few golf officials who did not condemn steel shafts when they were put on the market. He gave them a fair trial, repudiated the idea that they were invested with magic qualities which would make a good golfer out of a bad one, defended their use in tournaments against the U. S. G. A. and the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. He announced that his first acts as Tsar of the P. G. A. would be to raise the membership fees...
...they were to withstand the stiff competition of the bootlegging industry, a more modern, more effective sales argument had to be found. The solution to the difficult merchandising apparently turned out to lie in intimidation, big and tough talk, and downright bullying. A ready market was created as soon as the winning smile was discarded for hard-boiled scowls and Chicago along. Most effective of all was the brandishing of a neat steel-blue automatic. No direct threats are known to have been made, but insinuations of what had happened to other undergraduates who had crossed the paths of these...