 | Franklin Eliot Felton - Internal revenue - 1870 - 592 pages
...forced into it by the bears selling out. They were bound to put it down. I got into the contest. And all these other fellows deserted me like rats from a ship. Kimber sold out and got short." In Mr. Gould's efforts to force up the price of gold he seems to have left no means untried to open... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams - Erie railway - 1871 - 434 pages
...such an amount of gold. I was forced into it by the bears selling out. They were bound to put it down. I got into the contest. All these other fellows deserted...like rats from a ship. Kimber sold out and got short He sold out at 37. He got short of it, and went up "( or, in English, he failed). It was unfortunate... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 448 pages
...such an amount of gold. I was forced into it by the bears selling out. They were bound to put it down. I got into the contest. All these other fellows deserted...like rats from a ship. Kimber sold out and got short He sold out at 37. He got short of it, and went up "( or, in English, he failed). It was unfortunate... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams - Erie railway - 1871 - 446 pages
...such an amount of gold. I was forced into it by the bears selling out. They were bound to put it down. I got into the contest. All these other fellows deserted me like rats from a ship. Kirnber sold out and got short He sold out at 37. He got short of it, and went up "( or, in English,... | |
 | Willoughby Jones - Businessmen - 1872 - 516 pages
...forced into it by the bears selling out. They were bound to put it down. I got into the contest. And all these other fellows deserted me like rats from a ship. Kimber sold out and got short." In Mr. Gould's efforts to force up the price of gold he seems to have left no means untried to open... | |
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I would put it up to 40 at one time We went into it as a commercial transaction, and did not intend to buy such an amount of gold. I was forced into it by the bears selling out. They were bound to put it down. I got into the contest. All these other fellows... 