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...shortage scare in India wheat climbed almost perpendicularly from 5 3 (Ho 94/. only to scale down again. "The advance is too rapid to be sound," they kept repeating to a public that did not want to hear. For was not the Farm Board bulling the market and Arthur Cutten predicting "Dollar Wheat...
Although the report that Russia would export no wheat for two years was denied, wheat surged upward. On every recession, buying by the public became more apparent. Seats on the Board of Trade jumped from $6,500 to $12,000. Arthur W. Cutten, greatest of living wheat bulls, became almost a national hero; telegrams poured in upon him asking how high wheat would go. He merely said he was bullish, named no prices. But in the public imagination "Dollar Wheat" became something to be achieved, in some places already achieved...
...Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain tycoon, pursued nine bandits who robbed him and his family, for eight years, caught the last...
...company left its field of iron beds and accessories, branched into general furniture lines. Although sales increased monthly over the preceding year, most of the gains were because of new purchases. But the public overlooked this fact and the pool in Simmons headed by Chicago Bull Arthur W. Cutten put it to $188, the high whence it started the long coast to this year's low of $10 1/8. While a few canny concerns (notably United States Steel Corp.) were reducing their funded debts, Simmons issued $15,100,000 worth of 5% notes that year...
...doldrums of depression, was stirred to humming life by a squeeze worthy of the late great Benjamin P. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson himself. Thomas Montgomery Howell, a wiry, taciturn La Salle Street grain broker who is picked by many to fill the big shoes left empty when Arthur William Cutten moved up to Winnipeg (TIME, Jan. 26), was the squeezer. Many a fellow trader, including (according to stoutly denied reports) the Federal Farm Board's brokers, were the squeezees...