Word: dump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation-wide anti-crime movement, had speeded up negotiations at the eleventh hour, abandoning their demand for $75,000 when Daniel O'Connell insisted that $40,000 was all they would get. Aware that the money was marked, the extortionists threatened to kill young O'Connell and "dump him on the doorstep" unless they were given opportunity to exchange it at a New York bank. The uncles acquiesced...
Subject to ratification by the eight governments concerned, the agreement would bind "India, China and Spain as holders of large stocks of silver and . . . Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
...anything, more pathetic than the military-war crowds in London, Berlin and Paris (all looking very much alike), whole villages of refugees, white-hooded orphans. Hunger is a primary theme behind the lines. One picture shows five old crones poking into a Berlin garbage dump. Another, the most cruel in the whole collection, exhibits a young Russian girl, her naked body shriveled and deformed by famine...
...Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that its beneficiaries were willing and financially able to risk possible losses, did not have to borrow to buy, were not likely to dump their holdings for a quick profit and thus unsettle the market...
...share, there is a paper profit of $8 a share to begin with. Of the block of shares purchased part may be resold at cost (the wholesale or bargain price) to Morgan partners and to wealthy clients of the firm, who will pay cash in full and will not dump the shares on the market. But, unlike other firms, Morgan & Co. have never given an "inside" participation to anyone in any security which they have offered to the public...