Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had raised its rate from 5% to 6%. Wall Street was caught unprepared. Tycoons rushed to telephones, brokers called up bankers. Ten members of the Stock Exchange were seen leaving a Broad Street building in one nervous, gesticulating group. Long after the dinner hour two Rolls-Royces still waited outside the austere House of Morgan...
Such service stations may cost $400,000 or $500,000 apiece. The company which is to establish them must have for sale a wide range of equipment and services. Already Firestone has begun the manufacture of batteries. It is said that Harvey S. Firestone not long since called Harvey Jr. to him and commanded: "Go forth, my son, and buy me an oil company...
...Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone-users to its short wave stations at Lawrenceville...
When the first call goes through, the event will mark not only a noteworthy technical achievement. It will be even more likely to nourish financial hopes among holders of telephone company stocks. All summer long A. T. & T. stock, usually conservative in its behavior, has been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger...
...golf clubmember can either: buy a ball, pay his caddy, have two beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others...