Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because this list has been prepared before the season opened, some of this information may be inaccurate. The CRIMSON, therefore, takes no responsibility for its correctness. All of the rates quoted are per day. The variations in prices may be traced to some extent to the fact that hotels operate on both the European and American plan.) NEW HAMPSHIRE Price begins at The Bellevue, Intervale $3.50 Brocklebank Hotel, New London 3.00 Eagle Hotel, Concord 2.00 Eagle Mountain House, Jackson 4.50 The Elms, Goffs Falls 3.50 The Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale...
Ignoring this obvious reason why present wool sales are few & far between, hard-pressed dealers in Boston and Providence last week suddenly came out flat-footed against the wool tops futures exchange. Not only did they yammer about the 10? price differential between wool tops futures and raw wool, but they claimed that wool tops margins are too low, speculation too rife. The Providence Journal announced that a group of dealers this week will ask the Senate Wool Investigating Committee to suspend trading in wool tops futures. While other wool factions called this "ridiculous," Senator Alva Blanchard Adams of Colorado...
...Here we see how extensively the members tend to concentrate their activities in the stocks which are so-called market leaders-stocks the price movements in which undoubtedly have a tremendous effect upon the general trend of prices. . . . These figures as a group are a challenge to the validity of the common assertion that the existence of the specialist and the floor trader is justified on the basis of their stabilizing influence on the market, and their resultant benefits to the members of the public who enter the market...
...September 7 and 10 of this year, two days of spectacular price losses, members of the New York Stock Exchange in general and mere particularly the specialists, were heavy sellers on the decline. . . . [Such] figures serve only to fortify further the conclusion indicated repeatedly in our studies that members of the Exchange trading for their own account-particularly the specialists-either create the daily price fluctuations or else contribute materially to their severity. ... In thirty-five trading days between August 16 and September 25, this year, twenty members alone accounted for 16% of the total trading in the United States...
...loved to lecture, liked photographers, reporters, liked to see her name in electric lights on Times Square. When she sailed for the U. S., after a 30-year absence, with her companion, Alice B. Toklas, she enjoyed getting a luxurious stateroom on the Champlain for less than the price of a small one, as one of the privileges of fame. "People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing...