Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most auction players may be divided into five classes-confirmed overbidders, cautious passers, insane doublers, rabid raisers, and winners, and the first four support the fifth in luxury...
Beginning with the year 1856 Mr. Martin issued annually a stock sheet showing the high and low quotations with dividends of stocks sold in Boston at the exchange, by auction or by private sale. Beginning with 1860 and running through 1919 Mr. Martin and his successor, Mr. Ruggles, also kept a voluminous set of note books recording the daily high and low of all Boston stocks. Scrap books of newspaper clippings carry the record of dividend transactions back to the year 1864. Mr. Martin's collection also included a complete set of the original stock exchange sheet of the Boston...
That which should accompany old age?honor?does not fall to those who go by too many aliases, like the steamship Yankton. She was offered at auction in New York; the highest bid was $2,700; the United States Marshall refused the price; and her sale was put over until another...
...been employed as a?rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...
...spring of 1922, Mr. Ryan, already faced with his impending bankruptcy, sold at public auction 132,914 of the 150,000 shares of Stutz which he then held. The purchaser was the Guaranty Trust Co., which later sold the stock to a syndicate composed of Charles M. Schwab and others for $20 a share?the price at which it had been auctioned. Mr. Schwab has since that time been in control of the company...