Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution proposed by Senator Ladd of North Dakota calling on Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to furnish data on the wheat futures market in Chicago as evidenced in the trading of the last two months...
...most recent venture, Southern States Oil, after having experienced a wild rise in price, was finally stricken from the Curb market. It was subsequently discovered that much of the rise had apparently been due to Mr. Haskell's buying, and that the Oklahoman had purchased more shares than he could pay for. What the outcome of the episode will be cannot be definitely stated now, except that it will bring about ex-Governor Haskell's financial downfall...
When one reads that a dinosaur egg of ten million years vintage is to be auctioned off by the New York Museum of Natural History to raise funds for continued Asiatic Research, one must wonder what market this stony curiosity will find. Mr. Andrews, the chief curator and wielder of the hammer in the present sale, evidently has no question for he states that bids will open at five thousand dollars. Certainly if any private citizen should buy it and not use it in the foundation of his house or as a stepping stone, he would need a room "founded...
...before Christmas the President spent at his office. Mrs. Coolidge and their two sons went to market and purchased an eight-foot Norway spruce Christmas tree which they erected and decorated in the Blue Room of the White House. Mrs. Coolidge also despatched 50 bunches of roses from the White House conservatory to the sales girls of the store where she obtained the great portion of her "White House trousseau." At 5 p. m. the President pressed a button, lighting the great National Christmas tree rising 60 feet high in the oval south of the White House. A choir from...
...developed the report that Haskell and others had ordered them to purchase 50,000 shares of the stock, and that after the purchase had been made they were left high and dry by their "clients." The stock was stricken from the list on the Curb and in outside market trading immediately afterwards its price was quoted "5 bid, offered...