Word: uhlmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday morning, after another sharp dip, U.S. grain prices rallied. Some grain speculators thought the worst might be over. Richard Uhlmann, president of the Board of Trade, thought it was safe to speak some reassuring words for a CBS broadcast. As he finished speaking, an assistant rushed up and cried: "The rally's oyer! Corn fell 8? while you were talking...
Commented Dr. Erich Uhlmann, expert in radium therapy and director of the tumor clinic at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital: "Yes, and if you bow east three times, it helps...
This time the traders, who have been a little leary of talking back, bluntly said that Truman did not know what he was talking about. On the basis of the Government's own figures, said Richard F. Uhlmann, first vice president of the Chicago Board of Trade, "our total [exports] were only 12% of the crop for the past 17 years." This crop year, the Government plans to export 33% of the crop...
Moreover, Uhlmann added, in the past two weeks the U.S. Commodity Credit Corp. had bought up 40 million bushels of wheat, more than the total yearly exports in 1941-43. Snapped Uhlmann: "When, any Government buys more wheat in two weeks than is often shipped during the entire year, it's bound to have its effect...