Word: traders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horsetrading is not yet dead. First the prospective buyer says: "How much," and the trader answers. Then the buyer says: "Too much," and the trader says: "Too much nothing! It's a fine animal!" "I'll offer you half," says the buyer. "What?" ejaculates the trader. "It's worth twice as much," and launches into a glorification of his horseflesh. "Ridiculous," answers the buyer. "Then there is no use talking," says the trader. The buyer turns his back and walks away with assumed indifference. "You're a fool," the trader shouts after him. "Nonsense, " the buyer...
...late, the market has been conducted by professional traders rather than by the public. Now the trader can, in the long run, profit only by accumulating shares cheaply and selling out to the public at higher prices; or by selling short at high levels and buying in cheaply later on, when the public is panic-stricken. Both tactics have been tried repeatedly in the past few months; but, although traders have piped, the public refuses to dance. In consequence, the repeated spurts and reactions of highly speculative issues on the Exchange during recent weeks have had, for the, most part...
Recently, an episode in the West showed that the farmer is just as difficult to advise as the investor or stock trader. The Department of Agriculture, after an investigation, reported that the decrease in potato acreage would amount to about 6% this year...
Everyone can, of course, see what is going on in the stockmarket, at least on the surface. Trading is becoming less active, prices are stabilizing on a lower level than obtained a few months ago. This much every ten-share trader can see. But the inner significance of it, the perception of the economic forces which are responsible for it-these are less obvious...
...raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from the ledger where the black blot was spreading; down to the harbor he went, took ship, sailed off in the dawn, Partner Parton with him. That was long ago; nobody knows what became of him; only Jervaile was left...