Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time being, only a small share of their tonnage to island refiners, but U. S. beet and cane growers would be without the extended protection of the expiring Jones-Costigan Act, which has helped keep U. S. sugar more than three times as high as the world market price...
...half-million tons of wheat previously fed to livestock. With Himmler's strong-arm squads on duty to watch for slackers, the farmers shrugged their shoulders, took humorous consolation in the Government's promise to sell them cheap animal fodder at $8 a ton below the market price for rye. and in Völkischer Beobachter's assurance that "the German peasant should be happy and willing to serve in this high cause...
...last session of the State Legislature to enforce public offering of all bonds sold in lots of more than $20,000. The bill expired in committee. St. Louis bankers thereupon asked and received from sedate Governor Stark written assurance that the next time Missouri bonds were put on the market they would be opened to competitive bidding. Lulled by the Governor's words, they woke up shocked and angry last fortnight when the State Board of Fund Commissioners blandly announced the sale to Baum, Bernheimer Co. of the last $3,000,000 worth of building bonds at a premium...
...public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware of this "immediacy" since last November. Since then, said he, the Commissioners had "kept putting off and putting off" the bond offering, while the bond market, incidentally, grew weaker & weaker.' Finally the Advisory Board last month suggested that the offering be announced in the press and by letter to interested bond houses. No announcement was made, no letters sent. What happened was that six days later soft-spoken George Baum of Baum, Bernheimer arranged a meeting...
...Michael J. Meehan (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.): A Decision, the first involving manipulation since SEC was set up, ordering Broker Meehan barred from all U. S. stock exchanges. To the nervous little broker whose name in stockmarket history was written in Radio stock during the Coolidge bull market, the order will mean little in money, much in honor. His health broken by SEC's interminable proceedings, Mike Meehan has not been active for more than a year and a half...