Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of them remember the wild days back in 1933 when Wall Street manipulators jacked the stock from $2 a share to $28, then let the price drop like a hot potato so that they could rig the market over again. Thus last week the hardy Atlas stockholders heard a grim summary of their company's condition and took it standing...
...hectic days the Dow-Jones averages of industrials tumbled to 156.34-down 5.18 points. Rail averages were down 2.23 points. On Friday, when traders unloaded 2,000,000 shares, the drop in values was the sharpest for any day in 16 months...
...Consider the exciting possibilities," beamed Smith, considering them. "Pretty soon we'll be able to drop 5,000 Ibs. of California sweet peas down on the London market 24 hours after picking. Why, Southern California will be the flower basket of the world...
...supposin it's just the beer ya like--ok, we got that, too. Ya just drop around to the Crimson Building tamorra night at 7:30 an ya get beer an coke an all the straight dope. Ya can slice it thick, ya can slice it thin, but nomatta how ya look at it, the Service News Spring Comp is the deal...
...know what your excuse is for running that awful stuff. . . . You say that is free speech. . . . Well, I'll bet you if you knew what your readers really think of Pegler, you'd drop him like a hot stove lid. If you would put the matter to a vote...