Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seats. Last week, one of the 550 seats on the Curb Market was sold for $120,000. There are exactly twice as many seats on the New York Stock Exchange, each exactly four times as valuable...
...doubt meteorologists and physicists would deny such a phenomenon, but to the Vagabond the day or two leading up to a "big game" week-end seems to be lived in an atmosphere of steadily growing pressure. Tension gradually develops with the first appearance of curb-side speculators and new faces in the streets. On Saturday morning, with phonographs blaring forth the Harvard songs and marches from every dormitory; students rushing their girls up and down the streets in a seemingly aimless fashion, and dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point...
...Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. (Manhattan) which increased its yearly (fiscal) earnings from $4.21 a share in 1927 to $6.47 in 1928. At its head is slick Lawrence Marx, whose most colorful achievement was the sale, last summer, of 30,000 shares of common stock. On the New York Curb, the stock was rising from a low of 23½ to around 50. But most of the company's outstanding 100,000 shares were not for sale, and President Marx is reported to have asked and got $70 a share for his block...
News of such a grave nature was not altogether unexpected. Attempts on the life of Joseph Forecast have been made in the past. Curb commissioners and agents of betting brokers have vowed that his activities will not continue. For three years, the gallant Forecast has battled grimly against the odds opposing him. His public has not gone unadvised. More than once he has been assisted from a Boston or Chelsea gutter bearing the marks of conflict. A week later his predictions have amazed gridiron thousands. There's no stopping...
Money. In Terre Haute, Ind., money moved from behind iron bars, to the curb in front of the Citizens National Bank & Trust Co. Within a cage set up on the sidewalk sat a teller. Banking motorists could cash checks, make deposits, without leaving their cars...