Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President would soon make an important announcement regarding credits to Latin American countries (see p. 10). Long deferred investment buying appeared. Vivid tales were told of big bears trapped, fretting behind the bars of higher prices. One venerable member of the Exchange was heard to sing that old bull war chant of the Chicago Wheat Pit: "He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison." And even the most sanguine of optimists was willing to concede that the song was applicable in any market last week, that much of the recovery...
...Great Madrid Bull Ring," largest in Spain and seating 26,000 bull-fans, was inaugurated last week with the first fight of a series which will last for 14 days "in celebration of the Republic...
Because the fights are a celebration, Spain's highest-paid bull despatchers are performing gratis...
...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 turn Bull; had decided to buy Can, Steel and other leaders; and believed, moreover, that his fellow Big Bears concurred in his change of financial heart. But Bear Smith, it appeared, had concurred in no such thing. So, while Bear-turned-Bull Danforth bought, Bear-still-Bear Smith sold. Mr. Danforth...
When stocks were going up Bernard E. Smith, floor trader with an office at W. E. Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than...