Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure of the electricity were undoubtedly unforeseen mishaps which will not reoccur. Nevertheless there still remained the spectacle of a group of performers, making a stage entrance in their dinner jackets, eating, it seemed, almost as a lesson in manners to the herd seated down in the pit, and then making an exit which gave the signal to the 250-odd undergraduates that the show was ended, that they could leave the room...
President & Pit. In Washington anxious Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde told President Herbert Hoover that trade representatives of the Soviet Government have sold short "at least 5,000,000 bushels" of grain (and possibly 7,500,000 bu.) in Chicago's pit, hope to depress prices further, sow discontent among U. S. farmers...
Peter Ibbetson will have more arias than The King's Henchman and a great deal of choral singing. Two orchestras will be used, one in the pit, and one. during several scenes, on stage. Settings have been designed by famed Joseph Urban...
...efforts of Chairman Legge, his Farm Board and its network of cooperatives could not hold up wheat prices. The July figure in Chicago slumped to $1 per bu.-7? below last year's mark. Traders in the pit spoke of a "panicky feeling." Growers out in the country wondered when, if ever, the Farm Board would get them better prices. Meanwhile the National Grain Corp. braced itself to handle 300 million bushels of wheat (about one-third of the crop total) through its elevators and co-operative agencies. From Hall-Baker Co. in Kansas City it hired Paul Bartlett...
...clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby corn, oat, rye pits. Visitors gaped at the world's largest light fixture in the lobby- a shaft of glass and metal. In a smaller room beyond. Board members will trade in securities at the rate of 10,000 to 15,000 shares...