Word: market
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. The profits of only one-quarter exceed $1,200 per year, the Department of Agriculture's "minimum wage" for a farm family. Reason for low income: For every dollar the consumer pays for food, about 30 cents gets back to the farmer, 70 cents going for transportation, marketing, etc. The fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually, thus entrenching a sloppy fluctuating marketing system. Congress is now called to remedy this situation...
...nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...
After a time the Marshal waked, and he was busily working on his memoirs when his wife returned, followed at a respectful distance by cook and market basket. In the basket was an old cock, just right for an old man's chicken soup, a bottle of wine as the Bible says "for thy stomach's sake," and some cheap but wholesome vegetables, for heroes are seldom rich...
...coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper, and on the proceeds he played with notorious bulls and bears of the Johannesburg market. He made $12,000 one day, lost $20,000 the next, and landed back in London with exactly three shillings in his pocket...
...agreements to restrict production, and cannot agree among themselves on tariff protection, the overproduction problem seems far from a solution. Hosiery manufacturers (who consume about 50% of silk used in the U. S.) have accumulated enough silk to last for some months, and are not greatly in the market at present prices...