Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars...
RFC was influenced, explained Harley Hise, by the dire alternatives for K-F if the money had been refused. Said he: K-F might have had to shut down, resulting in heavy unemployment. As it was, K-F last week had to lay off 5,000 workers anyway, while it...
Many another corporation was also worried over a cut in fourth-quarter earnings from the steel and coal strikes. Some had been hard hit already. Of 47 railroads reporting so far, only two (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over...
Then, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, something like panic began. There seemed to be no reason for it, but everybody began to sell. In that final hour of trading, 2,500,000 shares changed hands and prices tumbled crazily: Auburn Auto, which had recently sold as high as...
In the Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About...