Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traders swarmed into the corn-futures pit waving orders to sell. The selling deluge quickly spread to wheat, oats and rye. Prices tumbled. By week's end, cash corn had dropped 16? to $1.23 a bushel, lowest price in three years. May wheat, worth $3.06 before the 1948 break, slipped down to $2.17, and September futures dropped...
...year ago, the uneasiness on the grain market quickly spread to the stock market. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 3.52 points for the week to 175.60, wiping out all the gains since mid-December (at the start of this week it dropped again). The New York Cotton Exchange quivered sympathetically; prices tumbled 95? to $1.30 a bale...
...delegates met to receive certain instructions from Moscow. One of the speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...
Slowly a green crust spread over the maligned statue, darkening and coarsening it until people could hardly believe it was Donatello's at all. At last, in 1908, it was taken down from its place in Florence's church of Santa Croce. When the retreating Nazis demolished the city's ancient bridges and damaged its Uffizi Gallery and Santa Croce, San Ludovico stood serene in an abandoned railroad tunnel, waiting for peace, and justice...
...were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with its biggest competitor in 1925 and became Caterpillar Tractor...