Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...levels. In Shorters Court, the dingy yard where 400 yelling traders often moiled till 10 p.m., there is now no trading at all, for "Yankees" (U. S. securities) formerly traded there are all Government-held. Two fire engines block the narrow passageway to Shorters. Throgmorton Street, a sort of Curb exchange for oil and mining shares, is empty too. In the idle House, the brokers drill four nights a week for home defense; by day they play Spitfire pools. These pay off on the number of "Jerrys" brought down by R. A. F. each day. The proceeds buy new Spitfires...
...crowd had grown to 60,000, though the speech was still seven hours away. Downtown the special trains were unloading at the Nickel Plate and Pennsylvania stations; the crowd shuffled through sweltering side streets into the river of humanity that filled Elwood's main Anderson Street from curb to curb-a river that emptied, after a crooked mile, into the surging sea at Callaway Park...
Howard Calvin Sykes, depression president of the New York Curb Exchange, a specialist on mica...
...turned on its side (at around 115 on the Dow-Jones industrials average) and lay still. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The 'better technical position' assumed by the investor consists of his lying flat on his back in the gutter with one foot on the curb, his eyes closed and his mouth open. In this position he neither buys nor sells, and so is described as 'steadier...
...Angeles, a woman being questioned by Census Taker Albion E. Nelson glanced from her window, saw his car parked at the curb outside, said: "Your car doesn't look very good," gave him a newer car in exchange...