Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bath Iron Works's 1927 rejuvenation coincided with the lushest yacht-building era in U. S. history. First big contract was a 240-ft. job for Ernest Blaney Dane of Brookline, Mass. Hiram Edward Manville's 266-ft. Hi-Esmaro was built by Bath Iron Works. So was Hugh Joseph Chisholm's 244-ft. Aras and Eldridge Reeves Johnson's 279-ft. Caroline. Biggest yacht contract Bath Iron Works ever got was for J. P. Morgan's fourth Corsair, which was launched in the dark days of 1930 amid a fusillade of anonymous letters threatening...
...permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon picked up other circuses - Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Golmar Bros., Al Barnes. He became Ringling Brothers' biggest rival. Before Depression hit he sold his circuses to the Ringlings, was rated...
Today, at the end of the post-war era, these first pleasant dreams of permanent peace have been shattered in the chill dawn of reality. For with Spain in flames and the rest of Europe an armed camp, the ideals for which America fought have been dashed to the ground, and the question in men's minds is not of celebration of conquest, but of keeping out of another catastrophe...
Seven years ago last week the stockmarket crashed as it had never crashed before, bringing the New Era to a disastrous, disillusioning end. To date the end of Depression was not so easy-regardless of this week's election results (see p. 23). For convenience, however, financial pundits fastened upon a symbolic day and hour when, if something happened, they could say that bad times were over. That something was restoration of full preferred dividends by U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest private industrial enterprise, world's largest employer of industrial labor. Last week the Steel...
...fame and fortune Goldman Sachs reached an unenviable peak in 1929 under the domination of Waddill Catchings, leading apologist of the New Era, co-author of The Road to Plenty. It was the imperious Mr. Catchings who led the conservative old house into the investment trust fireworks of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge Corp. When his road to plenty ran up a tree, Mr. Catchings got out, joining his old friend, Utilitarian Harrison Williams...