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...last hour of trading on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929, stock prices suddenly plummeted. When the closing bell rang at 3 p.m. people were shaken. No one was sure what had just happened, but that evening provided enough time for fear and panic to set in. When the market opened again the next day, prices plunged with renewed violence. Stock transactions in those days were printed on ticker tape, which could only produce 285 words a minute. Thirteen million shares changed hands - the highest daily volume in the exchange's history at that point - and the tape didn't stop running...
...then came Black Monday. As soon as the opening bell rang on Oct. 28, prices began to drop. Huge blocks of shares changed hands, as previously impregnable companies like U.S. Steel and General Electric began to tumble. By the end of the day, the Dow had dropped 13%. So many shares changed hands that day that traders didn't have time to record them all. They worked into the night, sleeping in their offices or on the floor, trying to catch up to be ready for October...
...don’t watch their own home movies because they don’t have projectors or don’t know how to use them. It’s a daunting process for people who are used to VHS.” Coffey’s statement rang true for Lexington-native Reed Sturtevant, who first participated in Home Movie Day three years ago when it was held at the Boston Public Library. “You would see people come with big bags and boxes full of their home movies. I especially remembered this...
...down, Murphy's Law takes over: If something can possibly go wrong, it will. In the final days of one of Bob Dole's presidential campaigns, a GOP superstar was scheduled to appear in a splashy "turn things around" rally for Dole and make a surprise endorsement. The phone rang late the night before--the superstar was canceling the appearance, citing a "dental emergency." At least give that shirker points for creativity. Candidates know that national politics is a brutal Serengeti, and the animals that roam there have highly attuned survival instincts. When they start to flee...
...little idea what was in store when she took over the FDIC back in sleepy 2006. "They said this was going to be 9 to 5 and just an easy portfolio of issues," she said. But she quickly learned how far underwriting standards had fallen. A year ago, she rang the alarm with mortgage lenders and said they were not doing enough to help borrowers meet their house payments. "I thought," she recalled, "they were going to throw tomatoes...