Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Held, his meeting with Billie Burke (Myrna Loy), Christmas Day among the home-loving Ziegfelds, including small Patricia and her dolls. Enraged as his stars go off to Hollywood, Ziegfeld goes into a slump. He recoups again, puts four simultaneous hits on Broadway, mortgages their receipts to play the market. When Producer Ziegfeld died in 1932, he was heavily in debt.* In this particular, the picture is historically trustworthy. Its hero is shown expiring in elegant penury, an orchid in one hand, repeating to the Great Stage Director his favorite professional motto: "I must have more steps...
...since the Hall-Mills trial of 1926, Dorothy Dix has devoted herself exclusively to her perplexed public. To her handsome town house on New Orleans' shady Prytania Street now go some 500 daily letters, carried from the post office by her Negro chauffeur in an ample, well-worn market basket. Every inquiry is answered by letter or in print. Dorothy Dix spends the morning sorting mail, penciling notations on routine queries to be replied to by her devoted chief secretary, Mrs. Ellen Bentley Arthur. Knottier inquiries are answered by dictation direct from the oracle's mouth...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...
Born 56 years ago in New Market, N. J., Charles Dunn went to work at 17 as a wholesale grocery salesman, later learned all there was to know about the commercial paper business, was with the banking and commercial paper house of Bond & Goodwin in 1929 when Eugene Meyer, then Federal Farm Loan Commissioner, telephoned him from Washington. After that long-distance interview he became a fiscal agent, with his amazingly wide acquaintance among U. S. bankers, acquired in distributing commercial paper, as his most valuable asset. A large, plump, kindly man with close-cropped hair, Mr. Dunn raises prize...
...little more than a year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...