Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a heading "PEA PODS." I note what you say about them-well, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has only to go to JAPAN and they will show them how to raise PEA PODS for food, as you can buy them in any of the vegetable markets of that country. Since coming home from Japan we have often wondered why the farmers of this country did not raise Pea Pods for the market. Those we had over there were wonderful, and we were able to get them all through the winter months in Tokio as the writer...
...Philadelphia. Traders felt, and with reason, that the deliberations of 5,400 U. S. bankers, gathered for the meeting of the American Bankers' Association, held a more or less potent threat to the stockmarket. Many a banker, speaking for himself or his bank, had warned against frenzied speculation. The market had kept its strength, had soared through a record month. But traders feared the effect of a solemn and public pronouncement from the Philadelphia convention. Resolute bulls faced the 5,400 bankers with hostility...
...effect of the warnings from Philadelphia could be guessed and fought. What could not have been guessed was a 300-word statement from John Jacob Raskob, which came like a knife-thrust in the market's back. With Arthur Cutten, and the Brothers Fisher, Mr. Raskob has stood in the front rank of the bulls. His slightest intimations have lifted stocks nearly 40 points. His name, linked with the Du Pont interests, has been synonymous with a mysterious but potent pool operating in market leaders. Amazing, almost traitorous, appeared this statement, released on the very day the 5,400 bankers...
...interested, directly or indirectly, in any pool or stock market operations...
Edison Radio. Thomas Alva Edison, who made the phonograph practical, for long would have nothing to do with radio because of static. His son Charles recently persuaded him to turn his wits to the radio. Result: a set to be put on the market next week. It contains two receivers, one for super-selectivity to get local stations exclusively, the other for sensitivity to pick up distant stations. Their machine also contains a phonograph...