Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bears. When Radio broke a few points on Wednesday, the market tumbled swiftly after. Johns-Manville lost 9 points; International Harvester, 13; Adams Express, 10. Case Threshing Machine, "rich man's stock"*, dropped 19¾ points, closed 475.
Bulls called this reaction "corrective," "salutary," "reassuring." But the market's stubborn bears held it an omen of a real break to come. On the same day, Economist Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke Spanish words at the Hotel Astor (Manhattan). He warned: "Prosperity in the...
¶ Merging U. S. oil companies will include Sinclair Consolidated. Potent in the amalgamation will be the Cutten interests, represented in Manhattan by Nephew R. E. Cutten, trader for E. F. Hutton & Co. The new company, brokers heard, will not bear Sinclair's oilscandalous name. ¶ Stubborn bears drew...
Thus, the Hoover market. Like its predecessor, the much-loved, much-criticized Coolidge market, it is the joy of bulls, despair of bears. Will it last? Will it break? Foolish bulls or stubborn bears?
Charles Augustus Lindbergh went to Mexico after animals and received special permission from the government to shoot two cinnamon bears and two machos berendes (wild bulls). From the Hal Mangum ranch came a despatch telling of Lindbergh's slaying an antelope from an airplane.