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...minutes later they glanced at each other, startled. Was that a police gong? Into the curb eased a car, blue and fast, like the Detective Bureau's. Through the office door strode four men. Two, in police uniforms, swung submachine guns. Two, in plain clothes, carried stubby shotguns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...arising gong sounds at 6 a. m. The parade to the open sewer to dump the slop buckets begins at 6:30. Then breakfast, and the working day from 8 to 4, with an hour off for lunch. From 4 to bedtime, the convict has his fun-baseball, gabbing, movies, reading. Most escapes are attempted during this period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Indescribable was the confusion. When William Crawford rang the final gong at 3 o'clock, few traders heard it. Exhausted brokers knew it had been a record day, climaxing a record week. They knew they would work all night and all Sunday to catch up. Somehow, the Exchange had managed to turn over 6,641,250 shares of stock in Manhattan's wildest day of speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wildest Day | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Wednesday morning. . . . What is happening to Radio? Climbing whole points at a time, Radio soars from 234½ to an incredible 270. Who is pushing it? No one knows, and it suddenly tumbles back to 252, where it rests perilously at the tap of the final gong. General Motors lags, closes ¾ off, in spite of its new 150% stock dividend. Why? Perhaps too many shares for the pools to handle. General Electric gains 83½ points, keeps them. . . . Railroads are strong, may become market leaders when coppers and oils yield. Friday's turnover: 4,999,140 shares. . . . Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Foolish? Stubborn? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...people in the quiet stands; a cold rain dripped from the smutty sky and early autumn mist closed in around Meadow Brook. Airplanes rose suddenly from invisible fields and flew low across the enormous billiard table of turf; a Scoreboard said "Argentine-6; U. S.-6." The gong sounded for the eighth chukker and two polo teams cantered in from the northeast corner of the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Harriman's Goal | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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