Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than 60 years old, is one of the meatiest definitions of short-selling ever penned. Last week as trading in May grain contracts drew to a close on the Chicago Board of Trade, the economic profundity of the Gould definition was clearly demonstrated once again. Speculators had sold corn they did not own for delivery on the last trading day in May. Of course, the speculators hoped that in the meantime they could buy back the corn they had sold at lower prices. But instead of going down corn went up, up, up. By last April it was selling...
Consensus of economists was that commodities were now back in reasonably good line with other prices, certain farm commodities excepted. Even among them the readjustment was proceeding apace, with wheat down from $1.45 to $1.23 per bu., corn from $1.35 to $1.27 per bu., cotton from 14½? to 12½? per lb. Yet farm prospects are the best in years. With bumper crops expected, prices could drop much more and still leave farmers with the biggest income since Depression. Out last week was a U. S. crop estimate for winter wheat of 654,000,000 bu., biggest since...
Governor Townsend's airedale, an excitable and ambitious dog, chased a 'possum into a corn field and up an apple tree. Undaunted, the airedale jumped up to a crotch in the tree, followed the 'possum out on a limb and leaped to the ground after the 'possum. A little out of wind, the dog scrambled up, chased the 'possum, caught him and brought him back to the Governor...
...United Hot Clubs of America, the Society seemed assured of a welcome from the nation's half-million serious jazz fanciers. "We will choose," haughtily announces the Society's first bulletin, "to reprint discs that are distinguished both by greatness of performance and by rarity, leaving the corn to the hillbillies and the more accessible hot records to the assiduousness of individual collectors...
...Manhattan it was revealed that since last autumn Nikola Tesla, 80, eccentric, Lika-born electrical inventor, had been paying Western Union to send a messenger boy to the Public Library promenade twice daily, scatter 5 Ib. of corn for the pigeons...