Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bears dumped selling orders into the Chicago pit. After closing time in Chicago, double news arrived from Washington: 1) The House had voted (152-to-23) against liquidating the Farm Board; 2) the Department of Agriculture prophesied its drastic cut in the winter crop. Informal trading spurted on the curb outside the Chicago Board of Trade, with shorts covering at any price. On the sixth day July wheat leaped back to 60?. Few pit traders anticipated any further sensational rise despite the crop drop because the Farm Board continued to sell its surplus on every market bulge. Chairman Stone...
...Heard bankers flay a revised bill by Virginia's Glass to curb speculation on Federal Reserve credit as "deflationary and unwarranted...
Legislative lobbies: 1 all manner of farm relief; 2) inland waterways; 3) protection of organized labor. For years he sponsored a bill to curb Federal injunctions in labor disputes but not until he turned the legislation over to Nebraska's Norris did the Senate finally pass it last fortnight...
...Passed (363-to-13) a bill by New York's LaGuardia to curb injunctions in labor disputes and outlaw "yellow-dog'' contracts; sent it to conference...
...read the most execrable pornography is to go to any newsstand and buy one of the cheaper lurid magazines. There are literally hundreds of such magazines being published at the present time, yet no apparent effort is being made to curb the ever-increasing outflow. Some of the magazines have the grace to hide under the name of 'fine arts', but others of the more recent type come out bluntly and freely for 'Filth, and lots...