Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midway across Wyoming Mr. Rose, finding himself short of funds, organized a little side-trip into Yellowstone Park. For this he collected $4,000 extra. In Portland, Ore., broke again, he asked families back home for a "loan" of $50. Some parents anted up, others said it was the next thing to kidnapping. To molify his charges, who were growing testy, Mr. Rose then trucked them down the coast to Hollywood, presented each girl with a corsage, engaged tables for a Cocoanut Grove dinner dance. His profit from this little party was $2,500. It almost was more: instead...
...investors had got the scare out of their systems before the first bomb was dropped by Hitler's airmen on the Vistula bridges. Before the ink was dry on the first war extras, the stockmarket zoomed. One day's listless market (457,890 shares) became peacetime financial history. The next morning as the Germans entered Poland, 1,970,000 shares (1939's daily average 720,072 shares; 1939's biggest day, 2,888,000 shares) changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. War babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World...
...market, determined to hang on to his investment for still higher prices. As a result many buying orders were unfilled. Hides and lard boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper was up to 10, crude rubber up 2.28 to 18.9, highest since 1937. Next day, permissible limits were hit again. In two days untabulated millions of bushels of wheat changed hands. Brokers saw in World War II a drain down which the U. S. could pour its back-breaking crop surpluses at a handsome profit (except for cotton, no war commodity...
...Francisco (where shipping plummeted to an all-time low in World War I): Exporters had considerable inventories, but enough ships to handle only the next six-months' traffic...
...news of the negotiations jumped the price of shares from 12½ shillings ($2.87) to 35 shillings ($8.05) in three weeks. Accustomed to an average dollar annual dividend on their 429,300 shares, stockholders will now have to trust that Yokohama Specie Bank will repay their capital in the next four years. But with Japan intent on squeezing all Occidental enterprises out of Asia, and particularly keen to get gold for her nearly empty war chest, this looked like a far better risk than a gold mine in Korea...