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Second Wave. Next day the Exchange was again swamped with buying. Records fell right & left. In Saturday's brief two-hour session, 2,590,000 shares changed hands-the biggest Saturday turnover since the feverish beginnings of NRA in 1933. As in the hectic days of 1929, single blocs of 3,000 shares and more changed hands without driving down the price (e.g., Packard Motor closed up ⅛ after one bloc of 21,000 shares was sold...
...nebulae were jostling hotly in one small, close-packed mass. By the exploding universe theory, the date of this cosmological genesis would work out at about 2 billion B.C. Nonsense, say the critics. Certain rocks on the earth's surface, which could hardly have solidified under such hectic circumstances, are thought to be as old as that...
Smokers in general are hectic. At the last one before the war Sally Rand created a near-riot with her lecture entitled, "What the Typical Stage-Door Johnny is Looking for when he Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door...
...occasion demands; so Groucho leers, Chico mugs, and Harpo ogles with accustomed vigor. After two reels, even the most astute give up trying to follow the incredibly involved machinations of the brothers Marx; in favor of just sitting back and howling. As the story picks up speed, the hectic actions of Groucho and Chico, and the idiotic ones of Harpo make latter-day Bob Hope look like an esthete...
Most of the 2,000 delegates had longer memories than aging Phil Murray. They recalled that last year, when Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...