Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest business news of the week was a roaring bull market in cotton that lifted all deliveries above 9¢ a pound?nearly 100% above the June lows. Last month brokers on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange lazily perused their newspapers during most of the trading sessions. Last week they swarmed in a shouting, milling mass as they executed the deluge of buying orders. Their excited turmoil was heard above the traffic in Gravier Street. Loiterers grinned up at the exchange when they caught the yells and cheers of brokers as quotations crashed through to new highs. Cotton houses took...
Upon the broad side of a barn on a farm in central Washington, appears the figure of the tobacco bull, in the identical gallant pose given him by bill posters everywhere. And on this barn, as on 10,000 others, the cow member of the cast regards Her Hero with the same wistful admiration and look of fond desire which caused the clubwomen of a California suburb to request the removal of the poster, as duly reported in TIME (July...
...shoot holes in the trade of other nations with the British Commonwealth is the aim of the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa, whether or not any bull's-eyes are hit. As between the U. S. and Canada, what hits may be made? Last week anxious traders . analyzed Canadian-U. S. trade as follows, using statistics of 1930, the last approximately normal trade year...
Grand total Canadian imports from the U. S. were $600,000,000 while the U. S. bought $400.000,000 from Canada. Obviously the above 21 categories of U. S.-Canadian trade are among the biggest bull's-eyes the Ottawa delegates have to aim at. They were just getting their hands in last week. Ten days after its first session the Conference was barely under...
...Baldwin, in figure, face and manner the image of John Bull, saved the inter view by declaring in handsome English fashion: "The whole Conference is above parties and personalities. We are in the true cricket spirit. We don't care tup pence who makes the runs, so long as the Empire as a whole wins a victory...