Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joker. From the U. S. standpoint any such horse trade would have peculiar significance. Under the Constitution the New Deal has not much chance of regulating by law the hours of labor in textiles. But there is no limit yet found to an Administration's power to make treaties. If a treaty can be ratified limiting the hours of textile labor to 40 hours it will help to solve the problem of Japanese competition. It will become the law of the land and thus open new possibilities for Federal regulation by treaty of labor conditions in many another...
...below $1. It is these "penny stocks" that account for the huge share-volume run up in daily trading. Toronto had a 5,000,000-share day last year, and a 1,000,000-share day is poor business. It is also the "pennies" that give Toronto its peculiar flavor. Bay Street (Toronto's Wall Street) and the surrounding district are not unlike any financial district in smaller U. S. centres. There are a Childs and a Savarin restaurant. Because hard liquor is banned in Ontario restaurants Toronto has developed a "Broker's Cocktail," a startling yet appropriate...
...peculiar ceremony, in the time of the English king Henry VIII, the marriage party of a nobleman walked in a bizarre parade headed by representations of the ancient gods Diana and Mercury, and by ten cupids, five of them white and five negro...
...peculiar appeal to people with an itch for quick money has the stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share...
Wisecrackly tale, told in a peculiar adaptation of the football chalktalk, presenting an Ohio manufacturing family as the profit-and-lost generation...