Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weather. Hot dry days continued throughout the land as farmers despair ingly watched their acres brown under a relentless sun. Even the potent Federal Farm Board was not potent enough to bring the relief that only long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...
...libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried with him the sum of $1.60. At the State Farm Pomeroy sulked in the sunshine. He was displeased at ejection from his Charlestown "home." Silent, stolid, unsmiling, he awaited an operation for hernia...
...Lambert Pharmacal issue at 41¾, Woolworth at 55, May Dept. Stores at 50, Continental Can at 52½, S. H. Kress at 60, Sears Roebuck at 50, United Biscuit at 28. Special pride is taken in National Dairy Products, issued three years ago at 33. The stock has paid a 33⅓-stock dividend, followed by a 100% stock dividend, is now selling at 78. One of the original $33 shares has become worth $624. Brilliant also has been the record of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Goldman Sachs Co.'s own investment trust. Issued last December...
Last week, the directors of Middle West Utilities Co., great Insull holding company, voted a 10-to-1 splitup of its stock which, selling at $158 late in June, touched $370 per share last week. Stockholders were given 67 million dollars worth of "rights...
...represents last week's loans-to-brokers. It was a new high record in brokers' loans with a $95,000,000 gain for the week. It was also considerably higher than the figures prevailing during the Reserve Board v. Stock Market excitement last February and March...