Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In addition to silver practically all commodities rose, including the baser metals. The most spectacular performer of these was volatile copper which jumped from 8? (New York) to 9? as domestic and foreign buyers threw large orders into the market. Lead and zinc followed along. Typical of the increase in...
In the boom days of 1928 a stock called Alaska Juneau sold for $1 a share and this year it has sold for $20. It is, of course, a gold-mining stock-the one kind of stock which Bears can logically be bullish on- for when everything else goes down...
Bears? Bears? They are referred to daily in every financial paper. But who are the bears? Who are the men who have (so rightly) believed that stocks would go down and who have consequently sold short and sold again? Their names are rarely mentioned, for while it is eminently reputable...
Two, who have emerged from anonymity because of the size of their operations and the reputed size of the fortunes they have made by selling short, are William ("Bad Bill") Danforth and Bernard ("Big Ben") Smith. Last week's tall tale had it that Bear Danforth had decided to...
And No Birds Sing bears out the popular notion that blind people are happier than the deaf. Ostensibly the heart-wring-ing autobiography of a poor girl who lost her hearing, this book reads almost like a parody of the o-pity-me school.