Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roanoke, Va., stands a good-sized city market. Above the market is an auditorium. The smell of meat and fish often seeps up from below. One day last week a tropical sun blazed through the auditorium's huge uncurtained windows upon some 800 cheering, jostling, excited men and women. The weather made these Virginians uncomfortably hot. Thoughts of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob as leaders of the Democratic party made them hotter...
Last week Churchman Cannon was revealed in a new secular role. Investigators into the. affairs of Kable & Co., a bankrupt Manhattan bucketshop,* discovered that, like so many of his fellow countrymen but unlike most churchmen, the Bishop had been playing the stock market...
Moving only at the legal snailpace, Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...
...will control Fleischmann and Royal is expected to purchase Chase & Sanborn control. Many another food company was mentioned as likely to join the Fleischmann-Royal combination, especially Campbell Soup, Gold Dust, Postum Co., Inc., Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp. Securities of the three companies already merged had last week a market value of about...
...recent new yeast market, "discovered"' in 1919, has been the health-seeking public. Yeast eaten raw is a laxative, and as such is widely advertised as a cure-all for indigestion, bad breath, skin disorders...