Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days it continued-days worse than Rich Men's Panic (1901) and the dark April and May of 1920. Wall Street volume-of-trading records, set only last fall by the rising of the blister, went glimmering. The new figure was 3,734,031 shares traded, in March 3. The ticker was 52 minutes late...
...being exhibited is one of St. George and the Dragon published in 1782. Among the most interesting of the others is one of seven original drawings which were made for Punch by John Leech from 1845-1859. These drawings represent the reactions of the common people to a financial panic which occurred in London at that time. Another of particular current interest is the graphic representation of a man trying to figure out his income tax statement. At the top of the picture is the inscription. "Cease rude Boreas blustering sailes, trust your fortune's care...
They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined...
...both jobs since 1921. Son of a smalltown, Massachusetts preacher, he could not afford to go to college. So, at 17, he got a clerk's job in a Boston bank; became an assistant national bank examiner at 23 and soon married Jessie Duncan Hayden of Boston. The panic of 1907 gave him his great opportunity. He had come to Manhattan shortly before. During the crisis J. P. Horgan found two young men upon whom he could rely, Henry Pomeroy Davison (died 1922) and 39-year-old "Al" Wiggin...
...life he had been collating knowledge about shipping, foreign trade and the internal conditions, principal industries, steel requirements and tariffs of foreign nations. So when in the panic year of 1893 he got his promotion to the general managership, he could go abroad to sell his products. Outside of the U. S. he sold one-half of the 1893 output of his plant, to the wonder of the trade. Then through successive absorptions and mergers the U. S. Steel Corporation was organized in 1901. Mr. Farrell still ranked as the great authority on the steel foreign trade. He became president...