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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stockmarketeers found a suddenly strong market, hazarded various and unconvincing explanations, decided not to look the gift horse in the mouth. For the first time since June, a single day's trading passed the 4,000,000-share mark. The ticker once again fell behind, a full 25 minutes. Many stocks were pushed to new high levels for all time. Among them: U. S. Steel, Adams Express, International Nickel, American Express, Allis-Chalmers, Fleischmann, Victor Talking Machine, Loose-Wiles Biscuit, Commercial Investment Trust. Soaring, too, were Montgomery Ward, Chile Copper, Commonwealth Power, Anaconda, Coty Inc., Eaton Axle & Spring...
...truce. In an intervening marriage to a gaudy cinema star Mr. Wheater begat Zinnie, while Mrs. Wheater retaliated with a decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters remarried (each other), cinema actress and Italian prince found further unsuitable spouses, all of whom harassed Judy with threats to carry off the "steps." Judy countered by kidnapping her brood, complete with nurses, to the Dolomites where Bachelor Martin was wooing a suave and lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus...
...better to study enigmatic reptile nature, the Sahib kept a cobra under glass, until he found he was losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy...
...flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able to eat big bowls of soup and a caribou steak...
...battered pontoon, found floating last week off the Fugloe Islands, north of Norway, was taken to be conclusive evidence that Capt. Roald Amundsen, Capt. Rene Gilbaud and their four companions were dead. The condition of the pontoon indicated that it had been torn from Capt. Amundsen's seaplane by a sea crash...