Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Korea, to form a new Cabinet. Preceding this grim political struggle in Tokyo was a sudden and at first mysterious halting of exchange transactions which tied up millions of yen in Tokyo and slowed up business with Japan all over the world for some 13 days. The London market had comparatively little difficulty in liquidating" its yen contracts, but Washington was perplexed and anxious because U. S. markets were badly clogged. Middle of the week the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Eigo Fukai, "explained" that the ban was only a "temporary delay," that Japanese banks were working with increased...
...post-Reconstruction days by Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson, who married the paper's publisher and then its business manager when he died. In 1914, the Picayune swallowed the Times-Democrat. The Times-Picayune, whose last great battle was with Huey Long, easily dominates the New Orleans advertising market, owns the evening States and has long called itself "The South's Leading News-paper...
...like mending furniture and building his friends' fishponds in the Philadelphia suburbs. The first Monopoly board was a bit of oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur parlor-game inventor in 35 years, has been translated into seven languages. In the U. S., Atlantic City lots are the basis of trading...
...time, in Ohio, the hastily organized flood relief committee (see p. 12) learned that thousands of dozens of eggs were at its disposal for feeding the destitute. These two items of good news for egg-eaters were the complementary results of a single Government action to stabilize the egg market. Responsible for both was Henry Agard Wallace's Surplus Commodities Corp., an AAAffiliate. Most important natural factor in determining the price of eggs is the laying behavior of the hen. In spring, the big egg-laying season, eggs are ordinarily plentiful and cheap. In autumn and winter, hens...
...form of short term investment for foreigners, affording quick liquidation and till free, in spite of the Securities Exchange Commission, to move anywhere. When the President speaks of tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from the present rising market nor the consequent financial danger to the United States, but he does remember with no little vividness the part played by this kind of money in fostering a "boom psychology," and in addition considers its connection with the war debts...