Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the world's currencies were confounding the moneychangers of Europe last week (see above), the world's wheat was doing hardly less to the grain traders of three continents. Breaking over the Winnipeg market, a dark storm of selling tumbled the price 6¢ per bu. in two days. In Liverpool, Rotterdam and Buenos Aires wheat fell in confusion. In Chicago, no longer a world market, all contracts dropped below $1 for the first time since the Drought. Other commodities, notably rubber, joined the downward march...
...Dominion burned with rumors?that the Canadian Wheat Pool had withdrawn support; that the Pool was liquidating; that the Government was about to take over the Winnipeg Exchange. All this having been denied, the market steadied. But loud were the cries from the Prairie Provinces, demanding a world-wide investigation and if not that then a crackling short-selling probe...
...price of $1.45 per bu. True to form, the peasants garnered more wheat than France could eat. What it could not eat, France was last week dumping for what it could get.* It was even willing to lay down wheat in Montreal, all expenses paid at a price below Winnipeg...
...department stores in a dozen cities in Western Canada glitters the name HUDSON'S BAY CO. The Winnipeg store did a $7,600,000 business last year; the Vancouver unit, $6,000,000; the Calgary store, $2,600,000; stores in Victoria, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Kamloops, Nelson, Vernon and Yorkton, another...
Dominion over this empire of fur, stores, fish and land rests upon a Governor, a Deputy Governor and a Committee of five in London, where the company has its home office. A Canadian committee was established in 1931 under George William Allan of Winnipeg, president of Great West Life Assurance Co. Capitalized at ?4,492,224, Hudson's Bay Co.'s stock is closely held in England and Scotland, the members of Mr. Allan's Canadian committee being practically the only outside shareholders...