Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East or develop into a "nasty little Sparta." Its 650,000 people, with the help of a sympathetic world, had elbowed their way to a place in a hostile part of the world. They performed prodigies of desert pioneering. But they never succeeded in winning the tolerance or the trade of their neighbors...
When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
...surface gains. About 100,000 Montevideo workers belong to unions that are dominated or influenced by Reds. Keeping up a strenuous cultural-penetration drive, the Soviet Union donates film shorts to the government, free newsreels to movie houses. Red propaganda has convinced an apparent majority of Montevideans that increased trade with the Communist bloc could be a short cut to prosperity...
...truth is that, for generations, medical science has tried every imaginable dietary trick for arthritis and related diseases and found none of them effective except in gout. The Federal Trade Commission plans to have Alexander up for a hearing next week about his claims and promotion. But the popularity of his book is an accurate reflection of the prevalence of the disease and the despondency of its victims...
Early one evening last week, President Edward T. McCormick of the American Stock Exchange got a phone call from SEChairman Sinclair Armstrong in Washington : "Ted, I'm sending you a telegram to the effect that we are suspending trading in Great Sweet Grass Oils pursuant to section 19 (a) (4), and we are also suspending over-the-counter trading under section 15, rule X-15C2-2." Translated, this meant that in "the public interest," and to forestall "fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts or practices," Sweet Grass was suspended from trading for ten days. (Toronto continued to trade the stock...