Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Kennedy that he has "one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children." He is peculiarly fitted to perform such a feat, as his picture on the cover shows that he is exotropic, i. e., when he looks straight ahead with either eye the other turns out. . . . Maybe this is why he is doing such a good job of observing what is happening on all sides...
...Peace Jitters." In far from bucolic Wall Street, meanwhile, war babies stocks sagged heavily as traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market based on peace jitters," recorded Financial Editor C. Norman Stabler of the New York Herald Tribune. He figured that the day before, "the market lost 32% of the war upswing" because it was feared that A. Hitler might directly propose peace...
...well as vitamin A, damages male reproductive tissues, produces abortion in the female. Although large doses of wheat germ oil have proved effective in stopping habitual abortion in pregnant women, Chemist Henry Albright Mattill, University of Iowa, cautiously concludes that, until more evidence is available, "attempts to produce a market for wheat germ oil among prospective parents generally are to be deprecated...
...July night in 1937 when the alleged murder of a Japanese sentry at Peking's Marco Polo bridge (he turned up within a day, A.W.O.L.) furnished a pretext for the invasion of China, Japan's trade with the U. S., its best customer and its best market, started downhill...
...Last month the U. S. railway equipment industry took orders for five locomotives, 315 freight cars, no passenger cars, 6,500 tons of rail. Last week, No. 1 U. S. Rail Tycoon Martin Withington Clement of the $2,322,408,000 Pennsylvania announced that his railroad is in the market for 20 electric locomotives, 2,500 freight cars, 18 passenger cars, 80,000 tons of rail. Total : $1,7,000,000 of new capital investment (75% to be paid for by the sale of equipment trust certificates), but only a beginning for the Pennsylvania which has 58,380 unserviceable freight...