Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proprietors will turn a guilder almost anywhere they can find one. They are still sorry that Spain's Dictator Franco turned down their offer to bank him last spring. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Amsterdam became a concentration camp for refugee money. The city's grain market is one of the biggest in Europe; its stock-market is a sensitive, if not completely reliable, seismograph of world conditions...
...began to show marked improvement, was released last fall, is now living in Adelboden, Switzerland. Last week pictures reached the U. S. showing Nijinsky once more in the normal world: accepting a glass of wine from his wife, Romola, looking speculatively at a bin of vegetables in a Swiss market place, in concerned conversation with friends, smiling warmly (for months at a time he never smiled...
Sparkplug of the deal is a softspoken, balding Detroit lumber wholesaler named Herman I Hymans, who has never before nosed into politics. Originally he wanted to buy only 100,000,000 feet of the hurricane timber, was afraid that if he did the market price would go to pot when the Government began selling. Northeastern Association was the solution. To keep it out of the monopoly class, the Government insisted that it be a cooperative with at least 30 members. Last week, with a Delaware incorporation and Manhattan offices, it began soliciting more members...
...beauty is that if one glove is lost, a neuter single can be bought for mating because any glove can be worn on either hand. Die cut, it requires less labor to manufacture than an ordinary glove, but uses up 100% more goods. Priced cheaply, it might find a market with thrifty souls who lose an estimated million single gloves a year. Mark Cross priced it at $1.50 to $3.25 per glove (sold singly...
...YORK--An "attack" on officials of the New York Stock Exchange by an unidentified spokesman for the Securities & Exchange Commission provided Stock Market traders with a lame excuse today to lighten their holdings...