Word: days
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities in Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska...
...Thursday. U. S. Steel closed at 180, Radio at 43¼, General Motors at 45¼. The market except at the very opening was dull as though it were tired. But it seemed to rest securely. Stock Exchange Governors ordered the Exchange closed after 1 o'clock Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; all day Saturday. Tuesday was a legal holiday (election day). Thus was further rest insured...
...intangible change in feeling which saved the U. S. from complete surrender to what could properly be called a Values Panic, but there was nothing intangible about the factors which had worked for the change. Behind the group of bankers who met day after day at No. 23 Wall Street there glittered the world's greatest single pool of liquid wealth. How wide, how deep it might be, none but they could tell, for no man outside the doors of No. 23 Wall Street knows the resources of the House of Morgan. Loosely, journalists spoke of a grand total...
...Steel. On the day on which its three month option would have expired United States Steel Corp. last week announced that it had purchased Columbia Steel Corp., Los Angeles, whose assets total $38,694,416. For this it paid approximately $46,630,000 in common stock...
...17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious...