Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final pre-election quotations on the London Stock Exchange were...
...What do you want with me?" asked Isabel of Stroud. He answered, "I prefer to breed from good stock, if you must know!" She married him and repaid the insult by seeing to it no child was born. That beat Stroud, and she added injury to her revenge by giving him good cause to think her unfaithful. That drove him to throttle her, and to drop himself out of the window, thus ending a book which, considering that the author has published five others and should know better by now is not a very good book...
...wheat recovery was accompanied by rises in corn, oats and rye. It also aided the Manhattan stock market, which opened strong in a day of light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...
...loans. Taylor, Ewart & Co., established in 1911, has distributed securities with a total value of more than $50,000,000. It recently took part in the syndicate underwriting of many new issues, many of which have been among the notable contributors to present slumps in stock prices. It was admitted that the suspension might become permanent...
...snatched away what looked like a surely profitable investment. They had intended to buy, at 109 marks ($26) per share, some 54,500 shares in Henry Ford's German company. With this company, as with his other continental subsidiaries, Mr. Ford had intended to keep 60% of the stock in the hands of Ford of England, the parent and leader of his European family. The other 40% he was to distribute among German citizens. Inasmuch as stock in the other Ford companies had invariably enjoyed a rapid rise from its offering quotation, Berliners felt confident that a log-mark...