Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oats over 10?, thus adding over $500,000,000 in value to the corn crop and about $125,000,000 to the oat crop. As far as the former is concerned, rising prices of moderate extent for all staple grains is much more beneficial than simply a runaway market in one of them, even wheat. Prosperity in the latter case is confined to certain sections and to specialized farms, whereas under the former and existing conditions it is spread throughout the country...
...this evening at 8 o'clock at M. I. T. of the Aeronautical Engineering Society. The design, construction, and operation of the "Shenandoah" will be described by Mr. C. P. Burgess, who was associated with its design and was aboard the huge "lighter-than-air" craft during its recent runaway flight...
...utility stocks and bonds, which are always first affected by easier money, here showed distinct strength. In fact the further question regarding inflation through excessive gold imports is again arising. A year ago in March, bankers were able to control an undoubted tendency toward credit inflation and a runaway stock market. Now, however, the task would be harder. We have more gold, less active business in many lines, and a Presidential election ahead. No good Republican would particularly enjoy seeing the brakes applied to the money market as hard as to cause a skid downhill similar to that experienced last...
...expected that merely easy money can bring about industrial recovery, nor that a heedless money inflation will occur this year. The grip of the bankers on the money market during the threatened runaway inflationary market of March, 1923, proves that much. Yet as the months pass, conditions in the basic industries improve...
...history, for it is not. It has little mechanical intricacy of plot but a strong thread binds it together?the thread of Fremont's inevitable and typically American struggle up from the status of a "neatherd"#151;his adventures in local politics?his love for Winifred Ashe and their runaway marriage?his friendship for the outlaw Bushyagers?Winifred's tragic death and the unhappy chance that left Fremont a widower, with two children to support and the debts of his somewhat rascally-father-in-law to shoulder?the great Bushyager murder trial and its subsequent lynching-bee and Fremont...