Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Russian grain expert as adviser." The pool's losses are placed at a minimum of $5,000,000 plus enormous carrying charges. Last week one story said the pool had suffered more losses, but another said they had sensed the impending wheat disaster, profited by a timely raid...
...small sales is over. Last week farmers with many eggs to sell at high prices were disappointed; egg speculators who had sold short were pleased. After an unexpected duration of high prices, the Manhattan egg market broke 6? to 41¢ for extra fresh eggs in a sudden noon raid, and in St. Louis 4¢ was slashed off prices...
Last week a troop of 600 White (anti-Communist) Russians suddenly raided and almost wrecked the office at Harbin, Manchuria of the new Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Rudy. Excited Moscow saw in this raid the "sinister" hands of Washington and Wall Street, the right hand perhaps not knowing what the left doeth. Isvestia in rampant rage called the U. S. "the imperialist leader of all the nations now arrayed against...
...them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted, goes with: a slim fellow who proves to be incredibly cherubic for one who has served with the Canadian expeditionary forces. He used to be a Y.M.C.A. man. Not only does he fail to recognize Myra...
...utility company were in the cinema business. Some of Mr. Fox's stockholders seemed more gravely concerned than ever about their equities in the Fox companies. These stockholders, indeed, threatened a receivership and thereby produced not only a decline in Fox securities but a general bear raid on the entire Market...