Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge announced that wheat prices were too low, ascribed this condition to two causes: 1) "Rapid and disorderly movement which is putting a large part of the year's supply on the market in a short time"; 2) "The unprecedented liquidation of industrial stocks and shrinkage in values within the last few days" (see page...
...Fiske's rapid, casual delivery's, as ever, expert and sometimes unintelligible. Of the tricks of emphasis and accent she is still past-mistress. In this disappointing play she is accompanied by another oldtimer, Wilton Lackaye, who made mesmerist Svengali famous (Trilby, 1895), who returns, after a three-year illness, to do an excellent bit as the exasperated Judge...
...last week Harald Plum, wrestled less successfully with his nerves. His butter companies (Crown Butter and Le Brun) were, he knew, verging on insolvency, due to too great and rapid expansion. More than once in such crises Harald Plum had fiddled with the pistol which he always kept at hand. He claimed that the touch of cold steel soothed him, reminded him that his first millions were made in guns. Last week the pistol went off and Harald Plum crumpled, wounded but not dead...
Despite the rapid Thursday afternoon recovery, the low point of the swinging pendulum cut off many a speculative head. Roaring was the business done by down, town speakeasies. Wild were the rumors of ruin and suicide. In Manhattan, one Abraham Germansky, realtor, was last seen tearing ticker tape. In Seattle, one Arthur Bathstein, finance company secretary, shot himself. Estimates of the number of margineers closed out varies from 20% to 70%. During the first three hours of Thursday stock valuations shrank about $11,250,000,000, recovered all but $3,000,000,000 before trading closed. Brokers met at Hornblower...
...many ways the new holding company will resemble Standard Brands, which retains the identity of its units but profits through economy in distribution. Chief unit of Standard Brands was Fleish-mann Yeast Co. with a highly specialized, rapid system of distribution famed in fact and romance. Another was nationally sold Royal Baking Powder. To the new company Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. brings an international distribution system that embraces food stores, while the marketing systems of Hershey and Colgate include candy and drug stores. With this nucleus other companies can be added, swiftly expanded...