Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bales. Latest traders' estimate: 15,000,000 bales. Market (New York, middling upland): Last week, 18? per lb.; last year, 19 4/5? per lb. Within the month the Farm Board has advanced $7,250,000 to cotton growers' coöperatives to offset slumped prices. Corn. Prices fell sharply due to an increased crop estimate. Latest U. S. estimate: 2,528,000,000 bu. (previous estimate: 2,456,000,000 bu.). Market (Chicago, No. 2 yellow): last week, $1.11 per bu.; last year...
When stock market prices trembled from their highs and fell, rumor remembered the claws of famed Bear Jesse Livermore and how he might be running through the list, searching for weak spots to tear at. But last week Bear Livermore publicly scoffed the idea that "the little trading" he does was responsible for the break. Another ogre has been the report of a new bear in Boston who "sells the board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William...
When Cagle made the Army's third touchdown Harvard looked through, but Harding caught a long pass standing on the goal line, then fell across it, and 57,000 people saw Wood kick the goal that tied the score. Army 20, Harvard...
...distance in 12 sec.-a world's record for ladies. Young John Straley of Paulding, Ohio, said to Umpire Clyde Crone what many sandlot players often long to say to umpires. With a quick fist Umpire Crone did what umpires often long to do to fresh players. Straley fell awkwardly, did not get up. Policemen escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black margin, a brief obituary surmounted by an urn and supported by a wreath. Last...
...Collinsville, Ill., a contest was held on "Homecoming Day" to find the biggest liar in Southern Illinois. A $20 gold piece was awarded one Ernestine Smith, editress of the Columbia (Illinois) Star. The lie: her auto fell into a mudhole, sank in three weeks to Singapore, China...