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...Yellow Pig first appeared in Spivak's book Calculus, which is "Dedicated to the Memory of Y.P." The index entry "Pig, Yellow" refers the reader to page 314, where he finds the sentence. "In this case we will go whole hog..." The Yellow Pig reappeared on the covers of each volume of Spivak's five-volume Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry. While some picture the Yellow Pig himself, others are more subtle: Volume II, upon close examination, shows a cowering...
...sound and prosperous basis," President Hoover said the day after Black Thursday. He was expressing the standard and perfectly correct view that Wall Street is quite different from the U.S. economy as a whole. But the U.S. economy suddenly seemed just as stricken as Wall Street. The index of manufacturing production sank from 127 in June 1929 to 97 a year later. Farm income dropped even more. In 1930, 26,355 business firms went bankrupt. Hoover kept saying it was a temporary problem...
...this means that joblessness is increasing rapidly among unionized blue-collar workers, the proletariat par excellence. The very people who are used to steady work--work that provides dignity and enables one to support a family--are being laid off in droves. That makes the unemployment number an index of anxiety, anger, and humiliation as well...
...even serious editing. Yet, largely for his contributions to these publications, Reed's name became a familiar one to the undergraduate community. Achieving the position of Ibis on the Lampoon, Jack could boast to his mother in Portland that his name appeared more often in the Harvard student index than any other...
...trading sessions of 1982 unfolded last week. Like an anxious mountain climber midway up a steep cliff, the stock market cautiously tried a slight advance last Monday. But then vertigo took over. On Tuesday, brokers' telephones lit up with customer sell orders that drove the Dow Jones industrial index down 17 points, the market's worst one-day slide in four months...