Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Pressure. "On the floor below is utter confusion. To the left is the big wheat pit. To the right, the corn pit and the smaller oats and cotton pits. In front of them are batteries of desks with phones connected to brokerage houses...
...pregnant wheat. Her bored, detached attitude bothers some of the men. But usually the red-faced, screaming, frantic little men with thinning white hair and worried brows are too preoccupied to look at the fertile, sullen woman. They jump around, dash up & down the seven steps of the pit, wave their arms, yell as loud as God made it possible to yell...
...leave Harry and find a tired-looking, silver-haired broker resting for another go at the pit. What was all the excitement about today? He keeps an eye on the pit and says: 'It's a nervous market. On Wednesday the Government came back into the cash wheat market after being out for three, four months. . . . The market turned into a mad house. May wheat went up the limU-from $2.67 to $2.77. Then Thursday morning it went up to $2.85. Then the market was top-heavy on the buying side; those who had bought took their profits...
Continuing their ingenious methods of staging which produced the transept of Rheims Cathedral for "St. Joan," the VTW is planning to create in the Sanders Theatre a replica of the Elizabethan stage. For this purpose the present pit seats will be removed and the stage extended...
...thoroughly bombed borough of Stepney, has no hesitancy about putting his left foot forward. Unlike the Church of England's famed "Red" Dean of Canterbury, however, he is careful to put it down on the platform of Karl Marx's social theory, rather than on the pit-strewn ground of Stalinist Russia...