Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Longden, an old man in his trade, may not be the best jockey in the U.S., but he has won more races in 1947 than anyone else. At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off. He wears tailor-made leather jackets with tassels, talks out of the side of his thin-lipped mouth, sports a $2,000 diamond ring on one hand. Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down...
...union; nobody's mad at anybody except that maybe we're a bit mad at the union leadership." The union leadership was mad too. It extended its strike to the Hammond, Ind. Times, which also switched to typing. And the I.T.U. served strike notices on Chicago trade papers and the Detroit Times and Free Press...
...this financial stroke, Italy hoped to 1) wipe out the domestic black market in lira, and 2) add to its store of dollars by encouraging U.S. remittances, the tourist trade and export trade to the U.S. The chances seemed excellent that Italy would accomplish both...
...only one direction. After Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson disclosed that Japan needed an "unexpectedly large" amount of grain, December wheat soared to $3.20¼ a bushel, the highest in 30 years. Cash oats reached their highest price ($1.37 a bushel) in the 100 years of Board of Trade history...
George A. Kublin of the Kansas City Board of Trade estimated that the carry-over on next July 1 would be only 130,000,000 bushels. (The Department of Agriculture put it at 146,000,000.) "Anything smaller than a 235,000,000-bushel carry-over," Kublin warned, "is reckless...