wheat pit
Example Sentences
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Tense and nervous, speculators crowded the Chicago wheat pit one morning last week, waiting for the opening gong.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was at that point that the Farm Board tossed aside all conservative theories about "orderly marketing" to jump headlong into the wheat pit as a bullish buyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Senate floor last week looked more like rush hour in the wheat pit than a forum for lawmakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, in the most hectic trading in the wheat pit in over five years, the price of spot wheat jumped to $2.50, highest since 1920.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Katch" broke his neck by falling into the wheat pit, but the incident was soon forgotten in the advancing prosperity of the bank.
From A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by S. G. Bayne
