Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WhoIesalers generally quote old potatoes in 100-lb. bags, new potatoes in 165-lb. barrels. Retail, a 5-lb. bag of new potatoes now costs 29? as against 7? a year...
...have been skyrocketing on news of the greatest potato shortage since 1919. Not only are potatoes scarce but yellow turnips, the usual substitute, are practically impossible to buy either in the U. S. or Canada. A year ago old-crop potatoes retailed as low as 75? per 100-lb. bag and new potatoes were $2 and $3 per bbl. At the beginning of last week, 100-lb. bags of old potatoes were selling for more than $4.25 and prime tubers of the new crop were up to $7.50 or more...
...prices climbed last week, potatoes began to appear from unsuspected quarters. In Manhattan heavy shipments from North Carolina helped send old crop quotations crashing from $4.40 per bag to $3.50. New potatoes tumbled from $7.75 per bbl. to $5.50. Speculating in potatoes is ticklish business because there is no potato futures market, and operators find it hard to unload in a hurry. In last week's flurry a number of speculators were caught with their hands full of hot potatoes. And cool week-end rains in the East did not add to their comfort...
...ARTIST'S GAME BAG-Lynn Bogue Hunt-Derrydale...
...terrible thing for two cities to be only 33 miles apart. When Fort Worth heard that Dallas was to be the centre of Texas Centennial, her pride was pinched. Amon Carter and friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth's "Frontier Centennial" was planned...