Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just how this experiment ? if it is a consciously formulated plan ? will work out, no one can quite tell; yet the fact remains that the rapid raising of Reserve rates has put a distinct crimp in the stock market, whose speculative favorites came in for a severe liquidation. The motor shares, recently so popular, have in particular slid off to new low prices on the movement, with the suggestion that the former lively speculation in them will not be resumed in the immediate future...