Word: selling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
...Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...
That nearly every stock was at bargain prices by any modern economic standard was best shown by the fact that very soundest stocks were selling at ten times current earnings and many a stock such as that of the General Motors Corp. reached a point where it was only five or six times current earnings. And General Motors, according to the once unchallenged statement of John J. Raskob, should sell at 15 times earnings. Quite aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds...
...which was to share in the entire sweep of U. S. prosperity was sold at $3 per share. Dozens of stocks of huge companies sold for less than half of what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again...
False Lindbergh Book. Some foolish crook took the pains to write a book titled We Fly and, purporting to represent Col. Lindbergh, tried to sell it to Dorrance & Co., Philadelphia publishers, as his work. The attempted fraud was uncovered last week when George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher of Col. Lindbergh's We, asked Lindbergh if he had changed publishers. He declared that he had written no other book, had no intention of writing...