Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet" re-elected Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (see p. 15), the President had traveled 114,008 miles in office, finally passed by eight miles the record established by William Howard Taft in 1909-13. In his press conference Mr. Roosevelt sparred with reporters by comparing a speculative stock market with speculative news stories (see p. 75). He then settled down for a series of talks with Congressional leaders over plans for a program on farm aid and wages-&-hours for the special session opening Nov. 15. Other callers included Unemployment Census Director John D. Diggers and Chairman Charles F. Hosford...
...founder of the science of hydroponics was annoyed with the world last week. He had just heard that one more company had been organized to market plant-nourishing chemicals for growing plants in water, and in his testy opinion one more company made about a dozen too many...
...behind, latest floor prices of 16 major stocks will be given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
...Anthracite Commission last week turned up a genuine old-fashioned villain for George Earle to hiss. Coal operators lay their troubles to high taxes and John L. Lewis. More impartial observers lay them in good measure to the coal operators, who allowed the alert oil industry to invade their market after the great anthracite strike of 1922. Almost inevitably, George Earle's commission had come around to that old favorite, the House of Morgan...
...lying Belgian country, the bleakness of its villages, the hard craft and knockabout hilarity of its inhabitants. To describe them he strays frequently, and to good effect, from the path of his narrative. Best scenes: a country woman dressing, layer by layer, in her go-to-market clothes; description of a cockfight; Breughel-esque picture of a village fair...