Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
...occurred almost simultaneously to thousands of people that the smashing defeat of the anti-railroad radicals left a clear track ahead for railway stocks. Accordingly the Stock Exchange has been deluged with buying orders, and sharp advances have been caused. The public has been out of the stock market for some time, but it reentered with an almost unparalleled vigor and enthusiasm...
Brokerage houses reported that individuals who had not invested a penny since the War, waiting for sound financial conditions, were now telegraphing their orders. Grizzled traders asserted that the Exchange was in the grip of an oldfashioned, bull railroad market such as has not been dreamt of for years. Big pools made profits. Many, stocks reached new high records for the year, among them: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; General Asphalt preferred ; New York, Lackawanna and Western ; Packard preferred ; Pennsylvania...
Evidently the stock market expected President Coolidge's reelection, and more or less "discounted" it last August. But it apparently failed to anticipate the landslide which promised to strengthen his hold on Congress, or the smashing defeat dealt the radicals. Including "odd lots" (transactions for less than 100 shares), considerably over 2,000,000 shares of stock a day were sold on the New York Stock Exchange for several days in succession, in the heaviest trading seen in several years...
...eastern centers of consumption, but is also essential to southwestern cotton planters, wheat growers and cattle raisers. By producing either double track lines or else alternate routes between the southwestern centers of production and Chicago, traffic congestion is prevented, speedy freight service insured, and particularly a wider market for perishable western fruits is provided. The Atchison's building program has a much greater significance to the growth of the Southwest, and to American business generally, than many of the legislative proposals that obtain a hundred times as much space in the public press...