Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SING FOR MONEY - Putnam...
...money going into World War I's favorite commodities. Earlier in the month knowing speculators in copper had been stung by the price being pegged at 12? a Ib. (1918 high 26?). Europe was showing no signs of needing U. S. copper. Another World War II flop was wheat, which boomed to 92? first week of September, ended the month at 87? (1918 high: $2.25). Reason: for the week ended Sept. 23, U. S. grain exports totaled 366,000 bushels against 2,779,000 bushels in the same week of 1938. One commodity which had previously got somewhere...
...place where money was going was into such ordinarily dead issues as coal stocks, which nothing short of a World War could volatilize. This World War, by pushing Germany and England out of the world coal market, was bringing U. S. coal companies some pretty fair export business. In addition, if anybody stood to profit momentarily from industrial forward buying, they did: they couldn't fill their orders. Pittsburgh Coal was traded at $8½ (up almost 300% from $2¼), Consolidation Coal at $6¾ (up over 500% from...
...lose or draw, one place no one wanted to put money was in investments for income. American Tel. & Tel., which had paced the market earlier in 1939 (high $170 1/8) when people wanted the $9 it pays per share, without realizing it wasn't earning $9 a share, lazed at $161 7/8 (Aug. 31 close: $160 7/8); yet it is now earning at the rate of $9 for the first time in two years...
...leaf of flue-cured tobacco has sold this week in all North or South Carolina. Nor last week. Nor the week before. Tens of thousands of Carolina farmers could get no ready money. It was like the Midwest in drought time. Banks could not collect fertilizer loans or mortgage payments. Storekeepers were passing out pints of kerosene on credit...