Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of the Piggly Wiggly corner in 1923, the Stutz coup was the last big corner ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange. In a pious moment a few years later the Governors took steps to prevent them by rules & regulations. Another result of that squeeze was to dump considerable amounts of Stutz stock in the hands of the good friends of Allan Ryan's father-principally Charles Michael Schwab. Except for one short interlude, Bethlehem Steel's aging chairman has had Stutz ever since...
...world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time in October...
...Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered, even attempted some of Loyola's milder exercises for mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa gave Author Maugham a hint of the stormy...
...What Star Twinkles?" Thus posing as dramatically as possible as the underdog (which indeed he is), Ethiopia's smart Emperor stood for a long moment to receive his people's cheers, then disappeared behind his pink veil. Meanwhile in the U. S. the Negro Afro news service reported that blacks were swarming to enlist to fight for Ethiopia: "Chicago leads with 8,000 enrolled; Detroit comes second with 5,000; Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only...
...notes of Hood Rubber Co., a Watertown, Mass, subsidiary which manufactures Goodrich footwear as well as products under its own name. All this seemed commonplace enough to Goodrich shareholders. But to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, once-famed Cleveland banker and power tycoon, it became high treason the moment President Tew, in selecting the list of underwriters for the proposed issue, passed over the Cleveland investment house of Otis & Co. Cyrus Eaton used to be the principal partner in Otis & Co., which five years ago helped underwrite another Goodrich bond issue. Though Otis was reorganized and considerably deflated after the collapse...