Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is still a chance that Gannett may be ready for the Quakers, but probably Dave Shean will start in the center garden moving Art Johns to second, Dick Grondahl to short and Dick Ulin inserted at the hot corner...
...late, and chord by chord the booming of the bell-batteries is being silenced. The taxi has found a new perch at the corner, ready to pounce out at the customer's slightest beckoning. Packard, Pierce, Lincoln, and Buick have sought refuge a block away, their white tires carefully left an inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women...
Creation of Man, by Laszlo Szabo (real name), an arrangement of arcs and triangles dominated by an apocalyptic human eye in the upper left hand corner...
...available for delivery that month. There followed a mad forage for corn by shorts, of whom the biggest was Farmers National. As the price soared to $1.16 a bu., it became apparent that the shorts could not cover and the Chicago Pit was threatened with the worst corn corner in years. Furious, the Board of Trade finally stepped in, told Cargill to sell 1,000,000 bu. in four hours in order to bring its holdings down to the 5,000,000 bu. allowed by the "gentlemen's agreement." Terming this "confiscation of the worst order," President John Hugh...
Since then the CEA and the Board of Trade have held hearings and Farmers National has dissolved, partly as a result of its losses from the corner (TIME, Feb. 7). Refusing to make any defense before the Chicago Board of Trade, Cargill laid its case in the hands of CEA Chief J.W.T. Duvel, has since maintained a wounded silence in its head offices at Minneapolis, awaiting the CEA decision in mid-April. Sniffed Cargill Attorney Weston B. Grimes: "It is not surprising that a committee of our competitors should find our purchases of September corn to be offensive...