Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ticket scalping, the idiom describing the prevalent practice of playing the football market at multiple margin, will be on the defensive this year under public law enforcement statute...
...started when the Government decided on this year's quota of grain for export: 570 million bushels, 100 million more than it could readily get. As the Government bought on the open market, prices rose. Many livestock raisers, rather than pay such high prices for feed, sent their animals to market and cashed in on high meat prices. Thus at twelve leading Western markets, hog receipts one day last week totaled 114,800, as compared with 67,987 on the same date a year...
...Wheat? This seemed to put a damper on the grain market. The Bureau of Agriculture Economics last week predicted that farm prices would not drop until 1949 or 1950. This was the kind of governmental talk that had been booming up the grain markets. Yet commodities, which had been slipping, were little affected...
Part of the sluggishness may have been due to a change in Government buying and shipping policy. In the past the Government has frequently committed itself to export large amounts of wheat at one time, then crowded the market-and thus forced prices up-to meet its commitments. Recently the Department of Agriculture won out on a plan of comparatively small, regular shipments (about 30-35 million bushels a month until next spring). Unless the winter wheat crop, which got off to a poor start, fails badly, the Government should have grain on hand to tide the U.S. over...
...entrance by Korda, the Hungarian-born producer who first proved to Britain that it could compete with Hollywood, was well planned. He had tested the market a month ago with the first postwar production of his new company, an unpretentious thriller called A Man About the House, launched without benefit of the Korda name. It was grossing as much as first-run U.S. pictures, Korda said...