thousand-bushel

Updated: May 22, 2025

And Going obeyed, Merriam and Kimbark following, the new broker fairly throwing the wheat at them in thousand-bushel lots. "Sell May at 'fifty; sell May; sell May." A moment's indecision, an instant's hesitation, the first faint suggestion of weakness, and the market would have broken under them.

Frank Norris - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West