Word: baling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, commodity futures markets, which had been sagging for weeks, went up. Cotton jumped $3.85 a bale, wheat as much as 4¼? a bushel, and butter, eggs, etc. all made sizable gains in the expectation that the Democratic victory meant a continuation, perhaps for years, of high support levels for crops...
Last week Worth Street was full of trouble. It started with a buyers' strike last spring. This month the Government predicted a whopping 15,169,000-bale cotton crop. On the New York Cotton Exchange, cotton futures promptly slid off $4.50 a bale. Print cloth went to 25? a yard, off 13? from its year-end high, and there were few buyers. Some thought the slump on the Cotton Exchange would bring down textile prices further. Over & over, customers told Worth Street factors: "We're waiting for lower prices...
...week was also sparked by the Government. The rise was based on a deal for the Government's Export-Import Bank and private banks to extend credits of $120 million to Japan for the purchase of U.S. cotton. Next day cotton futures soared as much as $1.75 a bale, to $172.30, highest closing price in a month...
...Congress. In the next six months he ran up a boardinghouse bill of $21,373.66, spent $2,459 for liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...
Nearly 2,000,000 Britons signed protest petitions which were solemnly lugged into the House of Commons by the bale. Labor M.P.s uneasily totted up the probable number of angry voters: owners of Britain's 1,920,000* private cars and 500,000 motorcycles, probably 6,000,000 other Britons who customarily ride in cars, irate hotel, garage and service-station operators...