Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure this haphazard system exists because there is no Tobacco Exchange. A group of Manhattan brokers, however, have decided that there will be a futures market within a week. Highest hurdle they had to jump was to find a satisfactory grade of tobacco to use as the standard trading medium. There are countless grades "of cotton but the base contract is Middling ? in. Upland. All departures from the standard grade are adjusted between buyer & seller. Likewise the New York Tobacco Exchange, instead of dealing in Bright Flue-cured, Dark-fired Kentucky, Burley, One-sucker, Green River, Black...
...national pride in a familiar chatty style. Omoshiro ("Interesting") Club (now Fuji) was inspired by the Curtis magazines in the U. S. "An organ for all that was interesting and amusing, light and soothing," it was designed to sell at a low price and develop into a popular advertising medium. No. 5, Gendai ("Present Generation") was a serious magazine of the review type. With No. 6, Fujin Club, Noma entered the women's field against heavy competition, lost money for four years. Shojo Club, for girls, was No. 7. "We must not preach greatness or ambition to girls as much...
...cocktails, answering his own doorbell, his butler was listening day and night, in the pantry. Excerpt from the butler's record of what the Hitchcock dogs were doing: June 25- 5:75 a. m. Bark-loud; 5:17 a. m. Howl- long; 5:59 a. m. Yelp-medium loud. Some days showed 16 entries. Wilbur K. Hitchcock was directed to appear in court Sept...
Cavalcade has a dark brown coat which glistens golden in the sun. Medium-sized, slouchy, sleepy-looking, he is distinguished less by his appearance than by his character, breeding and performance. His ancestry is British. His father was Lancegaye who finished second to Coronach in the Derby of 1926. His mother, Hastily, was in foal when she was bought at Newmarket, England, by F. Wallis Armstrong, who brought her to Moorestown, N. J. where Cavalcade was born in March...
...prefer eggs. They know that when hens are not well fed in the great egg districts of the Midwest they seldom lay eggs. And even a well-fed hen dislikes to lay eggs in very hot weather. What most amateur speculators do not know is that the leading trading medium is October eggs, which were all laid in March, April and May?before the drought seriously affected production. There are 9,000,000 cases of eggs in storage which is only 500,000 cases less than a year ago. However, the advancing price of corn is almost sure to make...