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Word: lode (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock ticker is proverbial for its accuracy, yet it is by no means immune from careless clerks and incompetent stenographers. Last week the ticker reported that a dividend of 75? a share had been declared upon Mother Lode Coalition Mines. Immediately the gentry who make a living for a while by trading on the tape hurled orders t into the market to buy "Mother Lode," whose price soon shot up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stenographic Error | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...this time the Stock Exchange started an investigation. At first it was thought that someone had reported false news in order to manipulate stock prices. Presently, however, it was discovered that in the notice that had come to the Exchange concerning the dividend, was carelessly substituted the name "Mother Lode Coalition Mines" for "Kennecott Copper Co." upon whose shares the dividend had really been declared. As soon as news of this discovery was broadcast all the hopeful purchasers of "Mother Lode" promptly threw them overboard and that stock declined below where it had been originally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stenographic Error | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...peak, all good Parisians go to their watering places leaving Paris no longer French but almost American. The French who remain speak English, play up to the visitors, and give them at least half their money's worth. With such a reputation Paris naturally becomes a lode-stone to New Englanders heavily burdened with consciences, to Westerners fresh from their slavery on the farms, to New Yorke's anxious to be rid of their encumbrance of gold. On to the Grand Guignol, the Folies Bergeres, Monmartre and Zelli's! The Americans make the reputation, the reputation brings the American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPICE OF LIFE | 10/19/1923 | See Source »

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