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...combined bearish effect of the Federal Reserve statement and the English rediscount raise was immediately observable. Market quotations sprouted a universal crop of minus signs. In a day's trading General Electric was-off 12½ points, Westinghouse 10?, Case Threshing 10½, International Harvester 6???, U. S. Steel 6??. An average of 100 representative stocks declined 3.26 points. The Exchange closed Saturday, allegedly as the result of an influenza epidemic whose peak had long since passed. Stocks reopened on Monday comparatively strong, however, showing a distinct recovery from their first disorderly retreat. Having had time for reflection, traders had apparently decided...
...WORLD CRISIS (1916-1918), Vol. I. p. 6???Winston S. Churchill&-Seribncr...
...6???"The wealth of a nation is not in prices, but in production and reserves in store and service." ?C. W. Barron...
...employ issued from the house and crossed the grass to the little fellow, making, as he came, expressive gestures. The other's face relaxed. He beamed, took the doctor's arm, crossed to the house with him at a skipping run. In an hour the world knew that a 6??-pound boy had been born to Mrs. Lita G. Chaplain, wife of Charles S. Chaplin, famed cinema clown. The world already knew that, a few hours before, his latest picture, The Gold Rush, had been shown in a Hollywood cinema house...
...first measure provides: 1) a 5% ad valorem tax on all dutiable products and a 2½% tax on all duty-free products entering American ports in foreign bottoms; 2) a toll charge on all ships entering American ports, 6?? a ton on ships of American registry and 50¢ a ton on foreign built ships under foreign registry; 3) termination of all treaties in any way interfering with these measures...