Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more entomologists study DDT, the new wonder insecticide, the more convinced they are that it may be a two-edged sword that harms as well as helps. To find out, they have lately taken to spraying entire islands and other large areas with it. The city of Toronto has now given a detailed report on one such test...
...share on March 6. March 7 it closed at $2.98. Last week it hit $8.50. A Chinese laundryman, who bought 10,000 shares in 1942 for two cents a share and sold when the stock reached a dollar (profit: $9,800) could have bought every Chinese laundry in Toronto if he had waited a few days more...
...Canada is now being teased-by mail, telephone and telegraph-with their slick promotion patter: "unusual opportunity" . . . "quick profits" . . . "get in on the ground floor." Discharged servicemen, who get lump-sum mustering-out pay, are given top priority; a Buffalo, N.Y. ex-serviceman began receiving tip sheets from Toronto within a few days after a Buffalo paper printed his picture...
Many a U.S. state has issued cease-&-desist orders against Toronto firms; Pennsylvania has issued 33. The Michigan Securities Commission last fortnight banned a half-dozen Toronto firms from dealing in the state. Nova Scotia's Government formally warned against Toronto's "fly-by-night" stock peddlers...
Said Mining Reporter Sidney Norman of the Toronto Globe & Mail: ". . . about the only possible thing to do is to pass a law compelling would-be [speculators] to submit to mental tests...