Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circles were last week agitated over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading department, presumably...
Perhaps the most disturbing factor in the stabilization of the industry is the question of the future of television on the broadcasting of motion pictures. There are already several stations, at New York and other places, equipped for this purpose and receiving sets are now on the market; but so far the experiment has not been successful. There is more than a possibility however that what imperfections exist in the new development will be removed and that before long we may give up the theatre altogether and see the latest screen productions exclusively in our homes...
...week before the intercollegiate championships. This year, with all the local avidity for track sports, the Triangular meet suffered at the hands of professional hockey games, and other attractions. Set down in the middle of Boston's crowded winter season, the intercollegiate meet would be a drug on the market. It is doubtful, too, if the Garden arena is large enough for twenty track teams...
Seats on the New York Stock Exchange rocked uncomfortably when the market declined last week. In the first sales of quarter-seats, 16 quarter-seats sold for $109,500 each, making a whole seat worth approximately $440,000. Before the recent 25% increase in the Exchange's membership, the price of a seat had reached...
Last week there remained 270½ new seats yet to be filled. Their value will probably skip up and down with the nervous pulse of the market...