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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market with small volume, easy money. A broken sage was Charles Amos Dice, famed market student, who early in October published New Levels in the Stock Market, showing prices would fluctuate around the then current prices, never dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only 44 from Oct. 13-Nov. 15, as compared to 53 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Mandeville, Brooks & Chaffee, Providence, R. I., brokerage house, the first Manhattan Stock Exchange member to go under in the recent crash, was last week suspended by the Stock Exchange for inability to meet its obligations. Liabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle, 12,000 horses and mules, 1,200 "miscellaneous animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fruit Trouble | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...smallest tax upon President Cutter's shrewdness has been the necessity, increasing year by year, of impressing upon sensitive Central Americans that the great U. F. C., industrially dominant, is also the personal and political friend of each and every Latin American republic. Accordingly, last January, he wrote and published Foreign Trade's Golden Rule, explaining the essential economic unity of U. F. C. and the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, last week, he was vexed to find a rift in at least one of U. F. C.'s golden unities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fruit Trouble | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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