Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish that we might develop the field of Pan-American investment and the Pan-American export market with half the intelligence and energy devoted to the consideration of the plight...
...center of the American busi ness stage has been almost monopolized by the stock market during the past week. Ten days ago share prices were distinctly weak; of the speculative "leaders," Can declined ¼ in a day, Baldwin ?, Studebaker ?, Steel 1?. Even the reliable chain stores sold off sharply. Stewart Warner dropped...
When it came to explaining the motive behind the alleged bull manipulation of the stock market, however, wide differences of opinion were expressed. Some were im pressed with the maneuver chiefly as a drive against the "short interest," which was believed to be large. Others pointed out that 1924 was a Presidential year, that the Party in power might show more than verbal gratitude to anyone who could prevent depression and maintain prosperity at least until after election day. A third school maintained that large interests wished to stir up a good market in order to liquidate securities likely...
...stock market, as is well known, usually acts as a thermometer and barometer to general business conditions. The questions now asked are: Is someone putting a lighted match under the thermometer bulb...
Once upon a time folk-dances were common. Flaxen-haired madchens whirled before the Bohemian alehouse; Russian peasants brought in the harvest with a grand clicking of heels; and the toreador's wife turned exultant somersaults in the market place, while her husband slew the bull. Each of these was a primitive expression of emotion. The skips and contortions the ballet stage are all that now remains of these old-time dances. The originals have been so greatly modified and "aestheticized" by the professors of terpsichorean that their originators would scarcely recognize them. The folk-dance was natural; the imitation...