Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the assurance that France would try to stop cheapening of the pound, the French went ahead with the" Mayer plan. They pegged the "official franc" at about 214 to the dollar for use in the export-import trade, planned to set up a free market for trading in dollars...
Europe. Does that seem an attempt to monopolize the European market? Is not America encouraging British coal production by Socialist workers, rather than shipping her own coal...
...situation which had provoked the strikes was, at least in part, the fault of the Germans. Much of the food that could raise the workers' diet above its present semi-starvation level was either hoarded by German farmers or sold on the black market. Until the farmers met their food quotas, workers in Western Germany would go hungry. Last week, an emergency session of the Bizonal Economic Council (the highest German-run agency in the U.S.-British zone) passed a law to pry the food from the farm leaders. Henceforth, farmers and food handlers who failed to report...
Elliott and Sherover think the cerebrograph can be used to teach multiplication tables, chemical formulas, Morse code, logarithms, vocabularies. Eventually Sherover hopes to market his invention. "After all," says he, "a man spends one-third of his time asleep. This machine will add years to your life...
Wall Street brokers seldom take long lunches. They are afraid something will happen while they're out. Last week, most of them were just going to lunch when the day's blow struck. A storm of selling hit the market, driving down prices. By the 3 p.m. closing, the Dow-Jones industrial average was down 1.29 points. Next day the market went down again. Through the week, it continued to drop. At week's end, the average was down 5.57 points, and some $2.5 billion in stock values had been wiped out. All the market...