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...gong rang, signaling, the start of trading in the Chicago Board of Trade. Half an hour later, the pits were a pandemonium of roaring voices and flapping arms. Selling orders had flooded the exchange. At 10:15, traders yelled "Basement!" which meant that May corn had fallen 8?, the legal limit for one day. Within the next few minutes, May oats had dropped their limit of 6?, May wheat its 10? limit. It was the first day of a break in commodity prices which stirred the market as nothing had in two whooping years. The New York Stock Exchange slumped...
...good comedy) in Actor Silvers; it has a girl with looks and personality in Nanette Fabray. Most of all, it has a brilliant choreographer in Jerome Robbins (On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). Robbins' best offering: a hilarious Mack Sennett ballet which grows into a masterpiece of controlled pandemonium...
Daly: "The gun! The gun! The signal . . . from the Pinta! [shouts of 'Tierra! Tierra!'] Land! Land! ... I see it, too. A white sand cliff gleaming! . . . Pandemonium has broken loose here on the deck of the Santa Maria. . . . I'm all choked up. ... I return you now to CBS in London...
Spend one day on that field and you'll never forget Dick Harlow. Say what you will of other coaches, at Harvard and anywhere else--but when they got out on that practice field with Dick, Harlow is boss. And everyone knows it. One toot from his whistle and pandemonium suddenly turns into haste, haste of players and coaches alike to get to where Dick is. Harlow takes the C-team for five minutes, and for five minutes the scrubs are the hottest outfit on the field...
...while chemists called the new elements "pandemonium" and "delirium." Then one of them took a dive into Greek mythology and discovered that Pluto, god of Hades, had a goddess-friend, Persephone. Element 95, he suggested, should be named "persephonium...