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Bull Market. The strong bull cocoa market was somewhat disturbed at a U.S. Department of Commerce estimate of a record-breaking African cocoa crop. Even after this bearish announcement, however, trading continued at twice its normal rate. Commodity markets in general have been exceedingly active. On the Coffee and Sugar Exchange, for instance, a seat last week sold for $31,000, a new peak price. It was thought that Federal Reserve attacks on Wall Street were diverting money to the commodities, though this theory did not well coincide with Wall Street's recently renewed activity...
...have had sufficient training to formulate any sound ideas on the subject. The cultural theories that see rightly a certain acquaintance with literature, art, music as highly desirable in producing that gentle abstraction, the complete man, generally trouble themselves not at all with the crass, sordid details that must crop up for every one without means, or desire to live in an ivory tower; and even the courses in college curricula dealing with the science of business are more involved in the evolution of the abstract than in the grappling with the concrete...
...intellectual curiosity which finds its archetype in the "who-was-the-greatest-poet-Momma" sort of query ripens remarkably under the influence of Lux et Veritas,. The announcement today of the Senior questionnaire bears promise of a bumper crop of Yale superlatives. "Greatest social celebrity", "Most entertaining", "Best looking", and "best dressed" seem to flourish particularly well in the warm climate farther south, and bring home to those in Cambridge the difficulty of cultivating the same sort of thing under the exigencies of local conditions. Nothing but the most artificially regulated amosphere can develop analogous products within a radius...
Marda wanted to explore-and incidentally to escape Montmorency; she and Lois ventured into the gloom, relishing a fear that was "a kind of deliciousness." A crop of nettles, a dead cow, and by the stairs a prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that...
...combined bearish effect of the Federal Reserve statement and the English rediscount raise was immediately observable. Market quotations sprouted a universal crop of minus signs. In a day's trading General Electric was-off 12½ points, Westinghouse 10?, Case Threshing 10½, International Harvester 6?, U. S. Steel 6¼. An average of 100 representative stocks declined 3.26 points. The Exchange closed Saturday, allegedly as the result of an influenza epidemic whose peak had long since passed. Stocks reopened on Monday comparatively strong, however, showing a distinct recovery from their first disorderly retreat. Having had time for reflection, traders had apparently decided...