Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...third day the market stopped to catch its breath, rub its eyes, see whether Europe really was in the mess the ticker showed. On that day 3,770,000 shares were traded, tops for the week. Net result: a rise of 0.81 in the averages, which stopped new margin calls, but sucked back into the market many a small margin trader...
...opinion of last week's commodity markets. Most prices fell. Worst sufferer was a consumer and export commodity-wheat. July futures dropped from $1.08½ a bushel to 79? with such breath-taking speed that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace asked the Exchanges to limit trading for the third time since the turn of the century, set Saturday's close as the floor under which no trading would be permitted. Chicago complied by pegging the price, Kansas City and others followed suit. Another casualty was cotton: July futures down 10% to 9.11?. Moody's Index...
Married. Auto Scion Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40; and Showgirl Martha ("Mickey") Devine, 27, who once socked Primo Carnera in a Paris night club; he for the third time, she for the first; in Baltimore...
...Cited by the courts as often as any text, it has provided a standard source from which judges and lawyers can ascertain the origin, reason and status of the rules of evidence. Useless rules, ill-trained judges, an unskilled bar are the targets of its clarity. The third and final revised edition of the Treatise, now published, is a 7,000-page exposition with citations to 85,000 cases, 20,000 statutes...
...passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility of statesmanship"). "Looking ahead, one saw the face of nightmare; looking back, one saw the faces...