Word: priced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...Thomas, E-2 E. L. Black, E-2 W. H. Grammes, E-2 E. A. Hain, E-2 N. H. Weed, E-2 G. E. O'Brien, F-1 J. J. Ledgard, F-1 C. M. Adams, F-1 J. W. Greene, F-1 E. T. Price, F-1 S. Curtis, F-1 F. M. Libby, F-2 F. P. Lang, F-2 B. Guild, F-2 T. J. O'Connell, F-2 A. P. McKean, F-2 C. P. O'Rourke, F-2 G. H. MacEllyott, G-1 A. E. Foss, G-1 S. V. Wright...
...June 17, 1864, the Federal Congress passed an act designed to stop "speculation in the Government's money." The value of greenbacks had been very unstable, and that fact had been manifesting itself in a rising price of gold in terms of greenbacks in "futures" in the gold exchange in New York. Congress, therefore, by law closed the gold exchange, and forbade "futures" in gold and foreign exchange. Buying and selling went on--in small, demoralized markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next...
...aggregate, which has forced the millers to unprecedented buying of cash wheat. Back of this are many factors, not the least the alarms spread by the Government and the newspapers, especially since the shortage of winter wheat became known. A shortage of winter wheat should not logically affect the price of wheat for May delivery, when "July wheat" is cheaper than "May wheat," but the sentimental effect has been very great...
...cannot take space for details regarding the services of ordinary competitive speculation. The manuals on economics explain them. Usually listed are the following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed...