Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here he was in luck. He soon discovered that of Manny Rosenbaum's 4,000,000 bu. of grain contracts, the commitments on the long side were more than offset by contracts on the short side. Liquidation would not dump quantities of grain on the market at once. By agreement with the banks, who had most of Manny Rosenbaum's spot grain as collateral, the Board of Trade Clearing House selected a group of independent brokers (whose names were kept secret) to close out the Rosenbaum open contracts privately. Within a half hour after the market opened. President...
...Princeton season will be the Carnegie Cup Race in which they will meet Cornell, Yale, and Navy. Sikes will not permit any looking past the Compton and Childs Cup Races to this regatta at Ithaca, but unconsciously the men cannot dismiss from their minds the fanatical desire to dump the Eli jiux...
Progress is a fearsome thing for it leads from well-charted highways to unexplored paths which may end in some dark forest or municipal dump. As a result, it is easy to understand why Professor Rand feels that Latin is an essential part of a gentleman's education. It explains too, why so many of the Faculty join him in his attempt to retain the classics requirement. If motorists did not desire to visit new and fast growing settlements of learning, there would be no need to leave this main artery for the unexplored paths...
...Eldon, Mo., Charles Caldwell started the engine of his dump truck while it was in the basement garage of his house. He had forgotten to take the hoisting apparatus out of gear. The rising hopper lifted the house six inches off its foundations before Mrs. Caldwell stopped...
...stocks by its members, not to mention the Royal Family. Not without reason the harassed Prime Minister observed: "It is impossible to differentiate between many munitions firms and firms producing material for use in peace time." After brushing aside with irritation an offer from U. S. Armsquisitor Nye to dump into his lap all dirt discovered by the U. S. Senate which could be thrown at Britons, Mr. MacDonald announced that a Royal Commission of Armament Inquiry will shortly be formed with full powers, full authority to accept or reject Senate dirt...