Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodward stud, but by no means the only great one. Woodward-bred horses (up to July 1, 1939) have won 1,612 races, have earned more than $3,500,000 on U. S. and English tracks. Not all of this money went into Mr. Woodward's pocket. Horses sold as yearlings won $1,250,000 of this amount. In the past decade, three Woodward-owned horses have won the Kentucky Derby: Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), and Johnstown (1939). Five have captured the Belmont Stakes, considered by breeders, because of its longer distance (1½ miles), far more important than...
...days of Dr. James Monroe Smith as head of Louisiana State University, a Federal Grand Jury in New Orleans charged last week, a ruthless group of five politicos sold L. S. U. the Bienville Hotel for $575,000, lock, stock & barrel, then sold the hotel fixtures again to the University for another...
Last week, wheat sold at Liverpool for less than at any time on record, July corn sold at Chicago for less than at any time in six years, October cotton was quoted at New York for 1½? less than the week before. The auto industry was in its summer stagnation period. And out from under U. S. business was knocked 1939's firmest prop: building's spurt to new monthly highs. The Annalist reported that building-earlier in the year up some 70% from the 1938 low (adjusted seasonally), and almost 25% from the 1937 high...
This was old-fashioned fun. The public bought and Exchange members, who in the last week in June made 66% of all short sales, scrambled to buy the shares that they had sold but did not own. Four tangible factors were credited with causing the market excitement...
...system sold 4,147,339,000 kilowatt hours in 1933. In the twelve months which ended last May 31 it sold 8,238,016,338; net for the holding company's common went from a deficit of $808,000 in 1933 to a profit...