Word: wheat-pit
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...pleasure and squeals of outrage. Just about 50% of Athlyn's 2,000 sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago's hostesses were nominated, and even Mammy Yokum, of Dogpatch, received six votes. The old Chicago wheat-pit spirit raised its head. Laughed International Harvester Director Chauncey McCormick: "I've been offering a dollar apiece for votes for my wife, but I heard Ed Cudahy is offering $1.25, so I'm upping my offer...
...British villages to receive cable despatches which told the glad tidings of what was happening on the New York Cocoa Exchange. Cotton, despite the bearishly small decrease in acreage, rose throughout the world. Textiles rose in the U. S. and on the great Manchester Royal Exchange. In the Chicago wheat-pit, 36 stories under the 40-ft, 15-ton aluminum statue of Ceres which is the Chicago Board of Trade Building's talisman, grains rallied smartly, sent the theoretical total value of U. S. grains up $300,000,000. On the New York Rubber Exchange, where recently less than...
ADAM'S RIB - An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and hokum...
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