Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound of the gong, Commodity Exchange President Jerome Lewine stepped forward to buy a September lead contract at 3.70¢ per lb. A zinc contract was sold at 4.40¢ per lb. Both transactions were for 60,000 lb.?the trading unit selected by the Exchange. In a rush of trading which continued all day, sales of lead futures reached 1,380,000 lb., zinc futures...
Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
Goebbels on his own responsibility had already killed von Papen's speech out of second editions of German papers which had managed to rush it into their first, and Roarer Göing had as much as seconded von Papen in a speech admitting that enthusiasm for Naziism was some what on the wane. Amid this Cabinet broil Herr Hitler showed himself the Little Man. He begged everyone please to be friends and patched up a tea party in the Ministry of Propaganda at which Dr. Goebbels and Lieut.-Colonel von Papen sipped at each other with wolfish smiles...
...costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes down to 10% of the pre-Depression average, President Roosevelt decided to rush a housing program into the economic breach. That it would be nice if U. S. citizens had better houses was a pious afterthought of the Administration. The National Housing bill had just one purpose: to sluice money into the building trades and the industries that supply building materials, money from private bank...
...corn, cotton, sugar, many another commodity, actually continued to decline until almost the end of last year, hardly moved off bottom until this spring. But by last week the Annalist index "in U. S. dollars" was pushing into the highest ground in more than three years. Despite a sudden rush of profit-taking which once again tumbled wheat below $1 per bushel and unsettled all cereals, corn soared to 58? (last year: 45?). Three successive winters favorable to chinch bugs had raised Corn Belt infestation to menacing proportions. Officials had counted as high as 5,000 pests to the square...