Word: churning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oils, coppers, utilities up 3 to 7 points as the market opens Wednesday, then churn back and forth. Kennecott copper up 12; Curtiss Aero, 12⅓; Wright Aero, 15½. Turnover: 4,894,670 shares. . . . More on Thursday, 5,037,330 shares, second "five million" day in history, only a handful less than on record-breaking June 12. Montgomery Ward closes at 366. Net gain: 17 points. Mounting, too, are Wright (6½-points more, 22 in two days), Coty, Inc. (10½). Where is the ticker? Over an hour behind (might as well have been a week) on Thursday...
...forgot to mention churning. I had to turn the churn and we had one cow that I despised; it seemed as if her cream never would turn into butter, and it also seemed as if it was always time to churn when the weather was just right for fishing or sliding down hill. Churning was an all-the-year-round...
...screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked. That was back in 1923 when the Senate was airing the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandals of the Harding Administration. Soon the tumult died, the people forgot, and the wheels of justice began to churn ponderously...
...Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp), Mrs. Coolidge filmed the natives with her cinema machine...
...radiator, light an electric light and open drawers. Last week in Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, an inventor stood before a group of newspaper men. Beside him was a washing machine with a bright tube affixed to its side. He raised his hand. The washing machine began to churn. He raised it again, beaming like a schoolboy. The washing machine stopped. He-V. K. Zworykin- was demonstrating a radio tube* so sensitive that the mere interruption of light-rays is enough to stop or start it. The tube can be attached, not merely to a washing machine...