Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hay loaders...
...hay presses...
...hay stackers...
...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
Perhaps Master Vaupell did not sweep conscientiously, because subsequent records show the New York Stock Exchange wandering the Wall St. district, occupying now a tavern hall, another time a hay loft or a rented room, until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail...