Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ezra Cornell was the leading miller and mechanic of a hamlet called Ithaca on Lake Cayuga. He had little book-learning, much patience and a jaw which his six-inch beard could not hide. He was a Quaker. He had made a fortune (for those days) by his own industry and originality...
...soldiers (Tjaden, Westhus, Detering, Katczinsky) and the 19-year-old ones (ex-students all: Kropp, Muller, Leer, and "myself"? Paul Baumer). We are at the Western Front. We feel the Front in our blood. Shells whistle, our senses sharpen. We feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing...
...Manhattan last week came a Hide Exchange, the only Hide Exchange in the world.* More than 2,000,000 pounds of hide futures, with a money value of about $350,000 changed hands during the first day's trading. August hides sold from 16.78? to 16.82? a pound, with the sale unit 40,000 pounds. President of the Exchange is Milton Robert Katzenberg. vice president of Andreson Stern, Inc., Manhattan hide establishment...
...from prosperous has been the U. S. Hide & Leather industry during the first quarter of 1929. Hides would sell at 19½?, then would come a period of stagnation, then trading would reopen at 16½?. there would be another stagnant period, then another reopening at 15½?. It was like a Wheat Market which opened only one day a week, and a falling market in which lack of continuous trading made it difficult to get out from under on future contracts that would result in a loss...
...Hide Exchange deals only in hides of the cow family. Individual hide houses handle also horse hides, deer hides, but these hides have no Exchange. Skins of other animals are dealt with by furriers and taxidermists...