Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week announced his retirement, to take effect at the end of the 1949-50 season...
Traders swarmed into the corn-futures pit waving orders to sell. The selling deluge quickly spread to wheat, oats and rye. Prices tumbled. By week's end, cash corn had dropped 16? to $1.23 a bushel, lowest price in three years. May wheat, worth $3.06 before the 1948 break, slipped down to $2.17, and September futures dropped...
...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
...end there was more than a year's stockpile of wool on hand, about 60% of it the finer type raised chiefly in Australia and used in worsteds. Wool men feared that the surplus would take 13 years to work off and prices would tumble. Demand did fall for the poorer wool used in making soft fabrics, which fewer & fewer buyers wanted. But everyone wanted hard worsteds. The unexpected demand cleaned out the fine-wool stockpile (but left the U.S. with a stockpile of low-grade wool) and caused demand to run far ahead of supply...
...week's end, the council and the International Wool Secretariat, which represented sheepmen in the British Dominions, joined forces to do something about wool: they formed a new organization, the Wool Bureau, Inc., in Manhattan. By research, the bureau hopes to find some method of treating coarser wool to give it the same properties as the finer grades...