Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, found his mother in bed with a "slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...
...were told to stand ready for any emergency. Object of the "futsched Putsch" was not to assassinate Prince von Starhemberg, who had returned empty-handed from Italy and was safely in Vienna, but to seize some of the munitions supposed to be hidden in his castle. It was a local Putsch and any smart Nazi might have guessed there were no guns at Waxenberg last week. Prince von Starhemberg has not yet disarmed his Heim-wehr as the Government is insisting he do, but he had removed every rifle from his castle knowing that if Chancellor von Schuschnigg should feel...
...organization, the Associated Stock Exchanges. It has only 22 members, though the full roster of U. S. stockmarkets including the Honolulu Stock Exchange and the Manila Stock Exchange numbers 30.* Out of that total 21 are registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission as "national securities exchanges." The rest, largely local in character, enjoy temporary exemption pending SEC investigation. Even among registered markets only two are really national institutions-the New York Stock Exchange, which accounts for about 86% of the total dollar volume of market trading, and the New York Curb Exchange, which accounts for 9%. The remaining...
Markets temporarily exempt from registration include ones like the Wheeling, W. Va., the Louisville, Ky. and the Reno, Nev. exchanges. On the Richmond Stock Exchange Virginians dabble in tobaccos, local utilities, Southern bank and insurance shares. The Seattle Stock Exchange is divided between mining issues and Pacific Coast industries like Jantzen Knitting (bathing suits), Carnation Co. (milk) and Alaska Pacific Salmon...
...Louis has an exchange about one-half the size of Cincinnati's. Last week one of its 50 seats sold for $1,500 compared to a 1929 high of $20,000. The St. Louis market is largely investment, and 90 out of the 100 issues traded are local. A thousand shares is currently a big day. President is Benjamin Franklin Jacobs, 57, a cordial, smartly-dressed broker who thinks that the SEC is a very good thing indeed...