Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women dashed through the streets, waving market baskets, taking part in a drive to enlist men who had failed to go to the front. At week's end came the first daytime air raid on the capital. Under orders from White Generalissimo Francisco Franco no effort was made to drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell...
Durgin Park--In the heart of the Market district. The Harvard man's paradise. Special steaks and chicken dinners that are unexcelled...
Another interpretation of the Bullock record was presented by SEC in the form, of comparisons of the various trusts with standard stock-market indices-a comparison which makes most investment trusters boil with rage and resentment. According to SEC, the record of all Bullock trusts except two was worse than the Dow Jones or the Standard Statistics market averages. According to Calvin Bullock, the periods selected for comparison were unfair, and by their computations a number of the trusts showed better performance than the averages...
...selected from natives for transplanting and cultivation. Pecans grow in 37 states but eleven produce the bulk of the crop. No. 1 pecan State is Texas, whose State tree is the pecan. Native pecans are also plentiful in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the improved varieties reach the market from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina where tourists find almost as many pecan venders on the roadside as gasoline stations. Pecan trees grow big, old. Near Hohen Solms, La., 40 miles south of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River, is a tree 13 ft. in diameter. Some pecan trees...
...until after the Civil War that the nuts were used for much besides feeding hogs. First commercial sheller-dealer of any importance in the U. S. was a Swiss-born cake and candy maker, Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten in the U. S. is a pecan. Only peanuts and walnuts are more popular.* Peanuts contain the most protein, pecans the most...