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...Street and the giants of the grain pits. But now, making a corner is illegal, unless it is done accidentally; in recent years the feat has been accomplished only rarely. Last week there was a growing belief that a combine of speculators had cornered the July futures market in rye-and made a big killing...
...evidence of a corner was strong. From July 2 to July 20, rye for delivery that month had jumped 37? a bushel to $2.15½; in the last three days of trading alone, it shot up 21? a bushel. But in the same period, rye for September delivery actually dropped 8? a bushel, to $1.652. Obviously, plenty of speculators had been caught short in July rye and their rush to "cover" had pushed up the price. Another factor pointed to a corner: at the end of the trading period, there were still 952 "open contracts" in July rye (i.e., agreements...
...Sample information: a sudden Government decision last March to buy 870,000 tons of rye.) Cullum named some of the combine's members: the Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. A tender-tough story about a 16-year-old who tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him (TIME, July...
...Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. A tender-tough story about a 16-year-old who tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him (TIME, July...