Word: dump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell and some economists argue that if the value of silver increases. India and China with their silver wealth will have greatly increased purchasing power. All of which is true, but others ask, "What will happen to the price of silver if India and China dump in the market some of their hoarded billions?" Hard times in the hinterlands have already brought silver back to the bazaars. The stock of silver at Shanghai reached the unheard of total of 322,000,000 oz. What will happen if the biggest buyers become the biggest sellers...
...greeter was John Cabbage, poet-laureate of New York City's street sweepers, garbage collectors, scowmen, dump tenders, sewage engineers, and white-collar employes of the city's Department of Sanitation. His salute was addressed to, and appeared last week in, the first issue of D S, a new monthly magazine of the department. Like New York's prison keepers' house-organ, On Guard, it is unique...
...would prevent additional inspection by U. S. inspectors, as is now possible. 2) Present provisions of the Seamen's Act covering experience of seamen shipping from U. S. ports could not be legislated upon. Alien seamen would no longer have to pass medical inspection. 3) Foreign vessels could dump immigrants in the U. S. by signing on double and triple crews, leaving most of them behind...
...lower than usual and the stock was quoted at $1.87, he decided to sell. In order to escape paying the $5 commission on an odd-lot transaction he wrote to Pumper Whitney, asked him to handle the sale. He explained that the public spirited Guild was reluctant to dump its holdings upon the open market. Gravely Mr. Whitney replied that a ¼point advantage would be gained by selling on the London Exchange. Shafer agreed, pointed out that since Pumper Whitney was soon going abroad he could easily act as the Guild's agent. Mr. Whitney was sorry...
...Government lives on borrowed money. This method of national finance cannot go on. If the Treasury tried to push its borrowings too far, without retrenchments, the world at large might become apprehensive of its financial condition. There would arise the spectre of default, even though remote. Foreign investors would dump their dollar securities. Gold would flow out of the country. Even to its own citizens the Government would be financially suspect. This would become evident in a fall in the market value of all Government bonds. Other bonds, already at low prices, would fall even further. Then would come...