Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pushing Sirs: In answer to Lawyer Curtis J. Quinby's criticism of "Swan Upping" as being a silly thing done by otherwise intelligent and progressive people: Granted that it is a foolish, though traditional, ceremony . . . what price a Britisher pushing a peanut up Ben Nevis with his nose as has been recently achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment...
Thus far proceedings had been sufficiently decorous, but now Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina and not a member of the d'Abernon Trade Mission, hove up upon his feet and cried: "Let the price of Argentine meat and wheat rise! Thanks to the work which you are going to give the British workman he will be able to meet these conditions with the extra money which will be put in his pocket...
...write figures on a board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver, at the end of last week they had sold 50,000,000, were apparently on the short side...
...Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south of the Mason-Dixon line) is built of marble taken from the temples of ancient Greece...
...ready to test-fly the British dirigible R-100, ordered by the British government. (The British Air Ministry itself is building the Commonwealth's other dirigible, R-101.) When the Government accepts the R-100 it will immediately resell her to Airship Guarantee Co. at half the contract price on condition that she will be used on experimental long-distance passenger flights within the Empire. (The R-101 is destined for trans-Atlantic service...