Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco financial circles were last week agitated over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading...
...large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched in a diaper pattern. The design of the figures is admirably worked out in a limited range of colors...
...Debated and rejected (47 to 27) a bill to prohibit speculation in cotton and grain futures...
...Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas went charging off into the commodity mar kets and proposed to punish trading in cotton and grain futures with fines and imprisonment...
...growing commerce with South America. New York City might also be relieved of some of her traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central and Pennsylvania through hard coal country (eastern Pennsylvania). Pennsylvania and B. & O. would serve the middle Atlantic states. New York Central would take care...