Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest city (292,000), got $400,000 for memorializing the battlefield of San Jacinto. San Antonio as third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is relatively small, but has the University of Texas which claimed $300,000. Fort Worth, the fourth city (163,000) had a potent pull in the person of the New Deal's Amon G. Carter and wangled $250,000. Texas' second biggest city, Dallas (260,- 000) ran off with the plum. Not for historical background but because she is Texas' financial capital and offered...
...began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored of the Aga Khan's three entries, with a new record, 1/5 sec. better than the old one. Thankerton was third, unlucky Lord Astor's Pay Up, the favorite, fourth...
Going to bat in the fourth with the Blackbirds going strong on a 3-2 lead, Harvard turned on all its strategy. Mal McTernen, George Tittmann, and John Adzigian got lifes on three successive bunts poorly handled on the third base line...
Next to the Big Board and the Curb the leading U. S. stockmarket is the Boston Stock Exchange, a large part of whose volume is made up of trading in standard stocks with a State Street flavor. The Chicago Stock Exchange ranks fourth, the San Francisco Stock Exchange fifth. Smallest registered market is the New York Real Estate Securities Exchange, where, during the depth of Depression, days would pass without a single sale. Typical little stockmarkets are the following...
Pittsburgh's market, which grew out of an oldtime oil exchange, is housed in a one-story building on Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh's Wall Street. About $30,000,000 worth of stock changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph...