Word: grain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hired to push Piggly Wiggly stock. He pushed it 52 points in a single day and cornered the market; the Stock Exchange had to set aside its rules and allow shorts five days to cover. In the 1925 wheat market ending with the Black Friday crash he bought grain in 5,000,000-bushel lots while the market was rising, turned bear at the top and sold 50,000,000 bushels short for an approximate profit of $10,000,000. Quietly sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum, pushed it up 75 points, suddenly...
...Best earnings news came not from a defense-plump Eastern road but from grain-carrying, often drought-beset Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. In August 1938 Atchison broke a 38-year precedent by failing to pay a preferred dividend. Last fortnight its common made the news. To the surprise of Wall Street dopesters who had expected nothing from its nine month's profits of only 11? a share, Atchison declared its first common dividend ($1) since 1937. Conservative Atchison directors never pay common dividends unless business is good. The dividend was taken as a sign of better times...
Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood...
Their idea: the U. S. ought to drop its farm tariffs, import as much grain and meatstuffs as Argentina has to sell, come what may in Kansas, Iowa and Texas...
...hallucination. With $30,000 from kind Philadelphia Quakers the Dukhobors bought horses, cows, tools-only to set free the animals and destroy the metal tools in a sudden burst of sympathy for their "little brothers" (the beasts) and "the men tormented in the mines." They even refused to kill grain-eating gophers, which they snared and then freed in other people's fields. Singing groups of Dukhobors often marched off into nowhere looking for the Promised Land...