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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elderly Dr. Capito, more than delighted, sent Composer Modarelli his $1,000 check and expressed the hope that River Saga would "flow on and on and on," and give other U.S. cities the notion of doing something like...
...this method and refinements of it, he at last found, in a sample of cranberry bog soil sent to him by Waksman, an organism from whose cultures he separated an active fraction that he named gramicidin. It killed or halted many disease bacteria, but it was dangerous for internal...
Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...
...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 as 10% of the cash price of the stock. Most of them had no more cash to put up to cover their losses. Thus the stage was set for Oct. 24-"Black Thursday...
...Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around...