Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organic chemistry at Columbia. They are now working to produce the new vitamin synthetically. Their work may lay a basis for future synthetic foods to form a scientific diet, though the authentic vitamin scientists have nothing but condemnation for the various commercial tablets, cakes, etc., now on the market. The best diet can still be secured from natural foods...
Evidently the market for powder has fallen off, due to the fact that there is no active warfare going on in the world on a large scale, and so the poor crows must be used as an outlet for an unsalable product. Dr. Edward W. Nelson, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, not only refused to endorse the crow-killing, but denounced it as being based upon "false information as to the nature of the crow." Massachusetts officials telegraphed the Deleware corporation protesting...
...only way in which "short" gambling can be met and broken is by "long" gambling. To gamble requires money. The only way the Bank of France could get money on a falling market was to sell francs (thus contributing to the stampede), or to borrow on the strength of its gold reserve. Large loans were accordingly negotiated on this security in London and New York, and credits placed at the disposal of the Bank of France in all gambling centres. The result was immediate; the "bears" were quickly routed. This definitely showed that the movement was not materially backed...
...better housed and better clothed than their comrades in England. During his many visits to industrial centres he had frequently inquired how the well-being of the wage-earner had been achieved. He always received one answer: "Well, we 'believe in keeping a big share of the home market for our own people." Turning to J. R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, he urged the Government to take care of the working people and to see if there were not something which it could learn from...
...bankers here so firmly clapped the brakes on the money market that talk of inflation, 'despite our ever-increasing stocks of gold, is dying out. Strong opposition has developed to any lowering of the Federal Reserve rediscount rates for the present. Money is easy, although becoming somewhat firmer on increased seasonal demand...