Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury bills. This sum was to be used for Bonus loans. According to Administrator Hines of Veterans' Affairs, 1,571,291 veterans have applied for these loans and to them more than 500,000 checks, averaging $377 each, have been mailed out. Bonus applications after the first rush had started to taper off; it appeared that total advances may be kept below...
...cold Livingstone River Valley 100 miles away. Australia still teems with excitement over a 94-lb. nugget found two months ago. Gold-rich Africa is the scene of similar tension. And last week in San Ignacio, Mexico, one Guillermo Laveaga came out of the hills and caused a gold-rush by his tales of a place where gold is to be extracted from the rocks with hunting knives...
When the public hears that a pool is at work in a stock, they are very likely to rush in and attempt to make a few quick points of profit. This is a hazardous practice because usually the public does not hear of the pool until the pool is ready to sell to the public. And it is also hazardous because pools are by no means always successful. Last week came to light the story of a tremendous pool and its unhappy ending...
...William Fox ceased to direct Fox destinies and Harley Clarke succeeded him. Able is Mr. Clarke and varied are his interests (which include ownership of the second largest brickyard in the world), but depressed is the cinema industry and few are the cinema companies which can expect an eager rush of investors to purchase their securities. Keen, swart, mustachioed Mr. Griswold has influential connections and a thorough understanding of how securities are issued, how the press receives them. He, better than Winfield Sheehan, Fox vice president and general manager, and better than any Fox man accustomed to the usual cinema...
City employment committees have cut in on the number of jobs to be found there much as they have here. This same condition extends into other fields; for example, the United States post offices were ordered not to hire unmarried men for the Christmas rush, whereas in the past a large number of college men were always taken...