Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in knowing that it was not taken from a homicidal striker, but was taken from an A & P store clerk, Maurice Needier,No. 2700 Market Street, who was returning peacefully from a picnic where he had used his machete to cut wood for a fire. Mr. Needier is now under indictment for carrying concealed weapons...
...last month): As he has done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes...
...season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad Street office with three sheep dogs at the moment when he is trying to repair the damage caused by his son's incautious revelations to a market tipster. Good sequence: a riot in the automat when Ball Jr. tries to give Mary a free meal, turns on all faucets at once...
...Courthouse, cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week when Westinghouse bought it from the Sees for 10,000 shares of common stock, worth $1,490,000 at the market price. Assets of the company were estimated at $1,068,000. Sales in 1936 were $1,650,750, compared to $1,262,293 in 1935. After a loss in 1935 of $73,945, the company made $3,348 last year...
...Prime mystery to Wall Street analysts has always been the exact part played by "little fellows" in market activity. To clear it up the Securities & Exchange Com-mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with...