Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Africa voted unenthusiastically to join on Britain's side -so unenthusiastically that there was a short, angry civil war before South Africa was able to turn on its German neighbor, South West Africa, and conquer it. After the War national lines were sharper than ever. The rise of the Hitler regime in Germany was reflected in South Africa by the outcropping of Nazi cells from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Last April it was rumored the Nazis were ready to seize South West Africa...
...boom uses. By the end of the week, an estimated $350,000,000 of Federal Reserve money had been poured in to support the market and the average price for all Treasury bonds was over 5 points below their 1939 highs (an immense loss for Governments, which usually rise or fall by 32nds). But the market did level off and the Federal Reserve stepped...
Cuba's tobacco was due for a fall, sugar for a rise. Havana was proposed as a free port, where both sides could pick up the raw materials of death from neutral sellers...
...suspend dealings for ten days in any misbehaving security, to suspend all dealings on any U. S. exchange for 90 days upon proclamation by the President of an emergency. The Commodity Exchange Administration has control over grain futures markets, can set permissible limits beyond which no future can rise in a single day. And the President, in addition to his power to cut he dollar to 50% of its old gold-standard ralue (it is now 59%) has the power to regulate or prohibit all dealings in foreign exchange...
...farmers a "blended price" of $2.15 per cwt. (46½ quarts) for the nine classes of milk they sell to distributors, an indicated increase of 65? a cwt. from the July blended price. Top price in this "blend" is Class I (bottled milk) at $2.60 a cwt., a rise...