Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eccentric hero. Late in the 18th century, an illiterate tanner named Timothy Dexter, who had made a fortune in Continentals, moved to Newburyport and there performed commercial prodigies. He shipped mittens and warming pans to the West Indies, coal cargoes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He cornered the whale- bone market. His profits startled...
President Coolidge learned of the stock market uneasiness and promptly expressed his belief that the brokers' loans constituted no real danger to the country's credit situation. Next day the market steadied itself and continued steady on following days. Average prices rose...
...National Grange and Senator Caraway of Arkansas want export debentures. The latter would be negotiable receipts issued by marketing agencies to farmers who market their crops abroad. Senator Caraway's suggestion is that the debentures should be used by the crop-exporters to buy imports duty-free, thus settling the tariff argument. The National Grange urges a tariff upon corn imported to the U. S. from South America...
...Senator Borah and others have proposed that the U. S. determine the cost of U. S. crops, buy surpluses and market them abroad. This is subsidy...
...great gnarled auction block from which men and women are still annually knocked down stands in the market place of the ancient city of St. Etienne...