Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxiously to see what effect, if any, Britain's crisis might have on Labor's vote. When the votes were counted last week, the score was: Labor, 10,827; Conservative, 8,874; Liberal, 910. In 1945 the Labor Party had carried the Edge Hill district by a margin of 6,039. Last week's vote was a loss of some 2,300 votes for Labor. Said Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton: "The drastic lowering of the Government majority . . . in this largely working-class district is a most heartening sign...
This week, as the Dodgers raced toward the finish seven games ahead, it was at least arguable that Jackie Robinson had furnished the margin of victory. The Dodgers are certainly not a one-man ball club. They have a bull-necked powerhouse of a catcher named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose special talents are steadiness and hustle. In Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stanky, both short of height but long on skill, they have the best keystone combination in the league. The Dodgers also have a special affection for 34-year-old relief pitcher Hugh Casey, who has come onto...
...president of Boston's Federal Reserve Bank, thought he had spotted the devil. It was Speculation. "The situation today in the commodity markets is comparable to that in the stockmarket in 1929," said he, "and it could have the same disastrous results." He demanded that trading on margin be eliminated and that trading in grains be put on a cash basis...
...doubt there was plenty of wild speculation. The commodity exchange division of the Department of Agriculture reported that 90% of all corn futures was held by speculators. This was partly due to the fact that many of Wall Street's speculators, curbed by the 75% margin requirement, had shifted their money to the commodity markets. There they could buy on margins as small...
...Chicago Board of Trade is not under federal regulation of its margin requirements. But it was jittery; attacks like Flanders' might bring regulation. Shortly after Flanders' statement, grain prices had their sharpest break in days; wheat fell 10 to 12? a bushel. As the session ended, the Board's directors, who increased margins the week before, voluntarily upped them again, from 35? to 45? a bushel for corn and wheat. That brought the margin to about 17%. But at week's end, grain prices crept back up again. Plainly, speculation was not the only devil...