Word: halts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Reserve Bank from 3 to 3½%. The rate had not been changed since Aug. 8, 1924, when it was lowered from 3½ to 3%. Considerable conjecture arose as to the cause for raising the rate, and whether it indicated a move to halt speculation in the stockmarket. Most editorial writers decided to the contrary −a position which the bank's own statement confirms. The New York Bank rate at 3% was below the market rates and also under every other Reserve Bank− Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco already standing...
...financial markets have come to another halt. The stock market, digesting recent price-advances, has proved irregular and less active, while sterling exchange has also lingered on its way back to par. The wheat market has experienced a severe but apparently speculative break below $2.00. Iron and steel production has mounted rapidly to what is already being called its peak for 1925 by business forecasters...
Gold exports continue heavy, yet the country's large trade balance in recent months leads many financial writers here and abroad to predict that the out ward flow of gold from the U. S. will shortly halt and that we may even see some of the recently exported yellow metal come back to us again later in the year...
...through the Chancellor's speech there were constant interruptions, slamming of desk-lids, rude calls. At one point, the Chancellor was forced to halt by the indescribable racket of Government supporters and Opposition as they vainly and vocally tried to shout one another down. Herr Luther looked pleadingly toward the President's Chair, but Herr Doktor Loebe was not there; he had left the Chamber for a snack of Frankfurters and beer. The Acting President, Herr Riesser, much preoccupied, suddenly became aware that the Chancellor was not speaking, looked up, caught Herr Luther's eye, jumped...
...muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty death-charge, to strike home lightning-wise between the shoulders, step aside, doff the hat and pose for plaudits...