Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull-breeder, a Madrid police official, a Matador (sword man), a Picador (lance man), a Banderillero (dart man), a member of the association of Bull-Fighting Impresarios, a sports writer, a veterinary surgeon, a season-ticket holder at the Madrid Plaza ring, all under the chairmanship of Madrid's Director of Public Safety, have been sitting as a high national committee to consider and meticulously represcribe the details of Spain's great national pastime, bull-killing...
...even these comforting words from the Bull Market President could not dissipate the realization that ''some decline in trade" is an understatement, that there are few signs of improvement...
...confirmation by U. S. Steel of the impression that odd-lot buying of good stocks continues strongly. At the end of June. Steel had 5,557 more stockholders than at the end of the first quarter. Its roll of 129,626 investors compares to 105,612 during the bull market a year...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...
...Nassau blew her siren. Police boats and a tug swarmed around. Ropes and advice were thrown to the swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island...