Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only 33 miles west of Dallas, Fort Worth, where blustery Publisher Amon G. Carter of the Star-Telegram gives $20 Stetson hats to distinguished guests, prides itself on being a thoroughgoing Western cow town. Boasting itself the Southwest's No. 1 grain and livestock market, Fort Worth likes the virile stench of its stockyards, hates cultured Dallas, of late years has found the excitement of its annual rodeo surpassed by the excitement of watching its fast, rangy Texas Christian University football team play Dallas' fast, rangy Southern Methodists...
...Paso (pop. 103.000), biggest border town, is crowded with Mexicans, tourists, consumptives. Small Laredo has begun to rival it for Mexican trade, is counting on a boom as U. S. starting point of the new Pan-American Highway. Brownsville, once headquarters for Confederate blockade runners, is now a market town for the Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort...
...electric stoves, heaters, curling irons, percolators, toasters, sterilizers, waffle irons, cigaret lighters, bed pads. Such an alloy is also used in 85% of all U. S. spark plugs. Metalman Marsh was the first man to make it, first to produce it commercially, first to put it on the market. More than half the alloy wire in U. S. heating elements is still made in his tidy Detroit plant...
...third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young & Co., with himself as president...
...Morrison's resignation leaves two vacancies on the seven-man board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, since President Roosevelt has never named a representative for agriculture. On a showdown in the potent Reserve Board open market committee, the five committeemen elected by the Federal Reserve Banks could, if they would, force a tie with the five remaining members of the Board...