Word: oct
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, something like panic began. There seemed to be no reason for it, but everybody began to sell. In that final hour of trading, 2,500,000 shares changed hands and prices tumbled crazily: Auburn Auto, which had recently sold as high as 514, lost 77 points to close at 260; Adams Express, which had once been up to 750, lost 96 to close at 440. The closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little...
...second time since he left the White House in 1933, Herbert Hoover last week took on a private business job.* He became a member of the new board of directors of Conrad Hilton's newly purchased Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (TIME, Oct. 17). Hoover, who will receive $30 per board meeting, had an added reason to take the Waldorf job. He lives there...
Passport to Pimlico. A small section of London takes hilarious advantage of its chance to secede from the Commonwealth (TIME, Oct...
...Heiress. The story of a spinster's revenge on her father and lover, sumptuously told by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Olivia de Havilland (TIME Oct...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In parts of an uneven doubleheader, Walt Disney is at his inventive best; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME Oct...