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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erroneous announcement from Washington one afternoon last week sent the stockmarket to a boiling close (see p. 10). Next morning, ignoring the fact that President Roosevelt was not preparing to cut the gold content of the dollar but was merely seeking to eliminate the gold clause from public and private contracts, speculators gave a mighty heave that shot prices to the best levels in two years. As the public rushed in to buy & buy & buy, transactions on the New York Stock Exchange swelled to an alltime Saturday record for a bull market-4,300,000 shares. Only once has that...
...York Stock Exchange went in for fancy guild crests, its motto, most U. S. citizens have been led to believe, would be Laissez Faire. Until 1930, when stockbroking as a whole fell into public disrepute, the Exchange was content to make sure that its members were personally straight. Since that time it has given a good deal of thought and some lip service to Reform. President Richard Whitney from time to time made footling pleas that all companies listed on the Big Board issue in the interest of their shareholders honest, complete and accurate statements. Many an offending concern indifferently...
...universities in the U. S., for having on its faculty George Bernard Shaw's biographer Archibald Henderson, for the leisurely atmosphere of its green old campus at Chapel Hill. Athletically it is notable because the members of its teams, instead of naming themselves after wild animals, are quite content to be called "tar heels'"; and because its tennis team in the last four years has won 62 consecutive matches. When North Carolina's tennists last week completed their fifth tour of Northern colleges they had beaten Navy, Maryland, N. Y. U., Army, Yale, Harvard, Brown. The score...
...events, Andover retained its championship in the preparatory school competition, chalking up 52 1-5 points in all. Lynn English high school scored 19 1-2 points to win the class B championship, while Roxbury Memorial was the victor in the class C content with 14 points to its credit...
...snook at technocrats: although with present machinery the output per man per day in his factories is at least 50% greater than it was 13 years ago there were last week more men on Owens-Illinois' payroll than at any time during the booming 1920's. Not content with what beer might hand him Mr. Levis has spread his net, Depression as he used Prohibition: to enlarge his sway. Last October he bought Root Glass Co. of Terre Haute, Ind. Last week he bought Hemingray Glass Co. of Muncie. Ind. and also O'Neill Machine...