Word: stockmarket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal war is recognized, the Maritime Commission must see to it that no U.S. bottoms carry munitions, or any other forbidden cargoes, to ports of belligerents. Other agencies prepared for possible emergencies, each in its own domain. SEC, fearful of a stockmarket crisis, conferred with officers of the New York Stock Exchange. The Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, fearful of the effects of war and the Neutrality Act on crops and prices,* studied 1914 precedents and the current state of crops and industry...
...soothing, in which the Führer expressed to the German people "in my name and in yours how deeply happy we are" that Italy has begun to take measures against the Jews. Soothingly the Proclamation told Germans that they need not be alarmed by the weakness of their stockmarket and other signs of economic strain: "German economy is being so constructed that at any time it can be completely independent from other countries. . . . This is succeeding. The idea of blockading Germany can be buried as an entirely ineffective weapon. We have no more worries about food...
...Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock (he was so excited about it at the time that he used gleefully to point to every Chrysler he saw on the street) made him temporarily rich. He kept enough pelf for comfort, is not "socialistic because of the Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into...
...stockmarket reaction whose appearance Wall Street had been waiting for last week blithely appeared. After a fortnight's drifting at about the same level, on volume about half that of booming June and July, prices dropped for six successive days. At week's end all gains since July 2 had been erased; from the August 6 recovery high of 145.67, Dow-Jones industrial averages plopped...
Like a well-spread buffet lunch, there was food for every thought in last week's business figures. The stockmarket slipped badly one day, steadied the next, ended about on the same level (140.24 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages) it had maintained for two weeks. Some thought this was a lull before a reaction, others declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally...