Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pegged, not even the farm bloc would have ventured to set the official price at $1.50 a bushel. What the economic vagaries of the farm politicians did not dare, the forces of supply and demand have accomplished, and wheat futures touched that price recently in the open Chicago market...
...recent estimates, Europe will need between 554 and 460 million bushels of wheat in 1924-25. Disappointing harvests have occurred in France, Russia and Poland, as a result of excessive rainfall. The European demand is accordingly bidding for wheat, and the result is a buoyant and rising grain market...
Last week, Wall Street woke with a start to discover another new industry had invaded its security market. Strength in what facetious financial writers here dubbed the "dough stocks" emphasized the growing importance of the baking industry generally. The stock market has long been familiar with "cracker" companies like National Biscuit and Loose-Wiles; recently, the "bread companies," like United Kakeries, Ward Baking and General Baking, have attracted attention on the "Big Board" and Curb alike...
...industries depending on the use of alcohol have steadily declined, owing to the drastic and unjust methods employed by the prohibition office, while establishments engaged in the use of alcohol illegitimately have flourished by falsifying bonding warehouse records and, obtaining alcohol without tax, are flooding the market with preparations containing it at a price far below the standard at which legitimate concerns must sell...
Earnings in the cotton market of one member during...