Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commodity Prices. Last June shorts were squeezed in cotton, hide, rubber, lesser commodities, as well as in stocks. Last week, also on a lesser scale, speculatively minded manufacturers, who had gone short of raw materials, again turned to buy in a rising market. The difference this year is that the commodity price upturn is accompanied by falling instead of rising production, is more speculative, than industrial; cotton textile prices rose as inventories peaked again at over 200,000,000 yards, and manufacturers discussed ways of carrying unwanted cloth; hide prices zoomed as leather production fell from...
...Brain Trust is Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. Short, dapper, arrogant, well-heeled Berle is a child prodigy who still likes to head the class. He is all at once: 1) analyst-extraordinary of corporate finance (The Modern Corporation and Private Property, 1932), 2) intimate of New York Muckraker Samuel Seabury who is backer of Republican Tom Dewey, 3) adviser to Franklin Roosevelt (whom he calls "Caesar" to his face), on everything from railroads to Munich...
...short months all that has changed. By last week, Canadian Colonial was honking along in full-feathered flight. On the New York Curb Exchange, its stock (which early last year could have been bought at 50^) sold last week for $5.25. For the first time in its history the slow-growing goose began to grow feathers for stockholders' pillows: a profit of $3,000 in March, $2,600 in April...
...last few years doctors in Denmark have noted that the tall, spare Danes are growing "fat and short of breath." Last fortnight Dr. K. Ulrich of Copenhagen gave reporters a ready explanation for this phenomenon. Like most Europeans, he said, Danes were slow to install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...
Bones in the Sky. Short, shaggy Dr. Charlie was a pioneer in goiter operations and surgery of the nervous system. Lacking the brilliance of Cleveland's George Washington Crile, the originality of Yale's Harvey Gushing, he ranked, by hard work and versatility, among the best U. S. surgeons...