Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first year was that the total amount of issues registered with the Federal Trade Commission was about five times as large as the total of registered stocks & bonds actually offered to the public. During April, the Commission announced last week, registrations becoming effective under the law reached a monthly peak of $156,000,000. Yet only $11,000,000 of these registered issues were offered for public sale. In ten months (July to May) more than $1,000,000,000 worth of securities of all kinds have been registered with the Commission in some 900 statements. In ten months...
...Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of the Plays and Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth's court...
...hand, but never a Baedeker. With a better seat in a library than on a horse, he is a hard man to upset in his own style of country. The physical peregrinations described in Beyond The Mexique Bay took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive portrait of the pitch lake of Trinidad: ". . . The real pitch lake is simply about 200 asphalt...
Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these attractions were powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their...
...shouted as the boom in West African gold stocks spread to other issues. Lights burned brightly in the City (financial district) until midnight as clerks toiled over books. Iron and steel shares were up on news that March steel production was 829,700 tons, highest since the October 1929 peak. Government securities soared in anticipation of this week's budget announcements. A speculator named K. H. Williams was reported to have made $2,500,000 in West Africans alone. London's financial editors raised storm warnings...