Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...European buyers' strike made the U. S. supply mount up to peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield and the scare of a world wheat shortage. Latest crop estimate: 792,000,000 bu. compared to a final crop yield of 902,749,000 bu. last year. Market (Chicago, No. 2 red) last week, $1.42 bu.; last year, $1.62. Progress has been slow on the Board's formation of a National Farm Grain Growers Association to stabilize prices. Reason: difficulty of securing adequate storage space. Cotton. Prices were down due to a larger crop than was expected...
...duty. That is all." Followed a charge that Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had offered to wangle the election of Her Majesty to one of the Regency posts on condition that she obtained the resignation from the Board of Regency of her son, Prince Nicholas. "Only market wives bargain in this fashion," continued the interview, which was signed Marie R.* "It is not permissible even to contemplate any replacement of Prince Nicholas. It is even less permissible to make such replacement an object of bargaining. "If the Government really believes that a preponderance of the royal family in the Regency...
When stock market prices trembled from their highs and fell, rumor remembered the claws of famed Bear Jesse Livermore and how he might be running through the list, searching for weak spots to tear at. But last week Bear Livermore publicly scoffed the idea that "the little trading" he does was responsible for the break. Another ogre has been the report of a new bear in Boston who "sells the board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William...
...hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material for gunny sacks, cordage and heavy wrappers. Trading on the new exchange will be conducted around posts for each of the commodities handled, which will include raw jute, burlap, hemp, sugar bags. President of the market is Rutger Bleeker, importer. To the Exchange Merchant Bleeker brings a knowledge of Eastern trade gained in 30 years of dealing in cocoa, jute, coffee, spices. In London the day the Exchange opened, he heard that 1,000,000 yards of burlap had changed hands during the first session at a price...
...against stocks that might rise and offset interest charges, while Heiress Wilson borrowed at 6% against collateral that probably yields no more than 5%. The reason generally suspected to be in back of the Wilson move is that her collateral probably consists mostly of bonds that have no ready market. As the certificates are outstanding until 1932 and the collateral does not have to remain fixed, Heiress Wilson can therefore gradually sell her municipals as a market for them appears; meanwhile she has the $3,000,000 to spend or otherwise invest...