Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only statement of the size of the trade was that it-would be for a "substantial amount" of gold. A definite announcement might have caused convulsions in Shanghai's speculative gold market. "We would not want anybody to speculate," clucked Mr. Kung, setting comfortably on his new gold...
...last year there were $5,374,000,000 in foreign dollar bonds outstanding. Of this grand total no less than $2,000,000,000-38%-were in complete or partial default. Many an issue is so hopeless that market quotations are no longer available. In listing a 6% issue of the State of Coahuila (Mexico) the council was unable to learn the original offering price or the purpose for which it was sold. Yet Russian Imperial bonds repudiated by the Soviet 20 years ago, are still active on the New York Curb Exchange. Last week's price...
...sandworm being especially alluring in spring and autumn, the blood worm in deep summer. Few years ago when salt water worms were rare, fishermen in Long Island Sound were willing to pay as much as 75? a dozen for them. Standard price in this year's well-organized market...
Leading Maine wormster is tall, shrill, husky Kenneth Ely Stoddard, 24, who began digging worms five years ago when he was broke and could get no other job. Now he employs 44 diggers and one packer at Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm's fighting element, Stoddard worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care...
...European bigwigs. Swinging through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Belgium, Dr. Kung was everywhere given the sort of excessively cordial reception he loves. This was because China's credit is better now than it has been for years and because Europe, notably Germany, desperately needs a market for exports. China's credit is currently high because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring and Dr. Schacht therefore licked their chops when he arrived in Berlin. They gave...