Word: marke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granaries grew greater and greater with stored wheat. U. S. wheat markets went through heavy liquidation. U. S. wheat dropped below 95? per bushel, lowest price since 1923, and as low as the lowest low since the War. In recent years dollar wheat has been an ebbtide mark, a symptom of a demoralized market, a text for sermons on overproduction and the farmer. But last week dollar wheat would have been good news: 90? wheat seemed to be the new low level for which crop prices were heading...
...thrifty Germans came last week a disappointment. From them was suddenly snatched away what looked like a surely profitable investment. They had intended to buy, at 109 marks ($26) per share, some 54,500 shares in Henry Ford's German company. With this company, as with his other continental subsidiaries, Mr. Ford had intended to keep 60% of the stock in the hands of Ford of England, the parent and leader of his European family. The other 40% he was to distribute among German citizens. Inasmuch as stock in the other Ford companies had invariably enjoyed a rapid rise...
...morning the Harvard crews paddled down to the two-mile mark in several stretches. The water was rough, kicked up by a stiff breeze. Prior to the time rows in the afternoon both crews paddled down to the bridge, with conditions more favorable...
...change his mark from...
...University track team at a meeting today. Kieselhorst, who prepared at Andover, runs the 100 and the low hurdles. In the latter event he won his second consecutive Intercollegiate title on Saturday at Philadelphia. In this event he set a new record at 23, 3-10 seconds, but the mark was not allowed to stand on account of a favoring wind...