Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the wheat market continued its upward surge in such a way as to make "Dollar Wheat" a distinct possibility. In fact "Dollar Wheat" was an actuality in the highest grades of grain. Montana Dark was taken for $1.01 in the Seattle pit. A fine hard variety brought $1 at Boise. The Pillsbury Flour Mills at Minneapolis paid $1.03 per bu. for No. i amber durum...
...playing in a local nickelodeon for $12 a week. Scarcely tall enough to see the screen over the battered upright piano, she rattled off loud, hectic accompaniments for villains, soft, trembling tunes for injured heroines. Occasionally from her place in the pit she would sing a song or two. Her singing got her a $50-a-week job at Mellone's Restaurant in New Haven...
...price of May wheat was 48¾? a bushel. Last week it rose to 61¾?. Bullish factors were: a reported 16% decrease in winter wheat acreage; the return of several bull operators to the Pit after a long absence; heavy buying from England in anticipation of a tariff; covering of short positions and long-buying from foreign interests who were heavily short around the lows. Cotton advanced slowly, steadily. Factors were a September rate of consumption better than that of last year, reopening of many Lancashire mills after the pound's fall, also British buying against a possible...
...orchestra, as has been intimated, is one of the very best ever heard in a theater pit in Boston. The instruments are very well handled and the direction of the whole leaves nothing to be desired. From a first hearing, at least, there cling no striking sections but the score as a unit is good and really worth hearing...
...Miss Hall nor Mr. Metaxa have very attractive voices. Miss Hall belongs to that school of musicomedy prima donnas which signifies its charm and purity by assuming too, too graceful postures, willowing all over the stage. Most of the excellent Kern melodies seem to be thrown away in the pit as incidental music, but there are two numbers-"She Didn't say 'Yes'" and "One Moment Alone"-which are memorable...