Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member was carried from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in a state of complete collapse. A petition circulated among members for a three day holiday, Good Friday, the intervening Saturday and Easter Monday, appeared to find more brokers fascinated by the profits of 4,000,000 share sessions than worried by the danger of physical ruin. Every "record" of any shape or description was broken and rebroken...
...Last week it was Finance Chairman John J. Raskob, guiding financial genius of General Motors, also in a leave-taking ship-news speech, who spoke the word. He was reported as saying that General Motors stock should be selling at $225 a share. It was then selling at $187.25. It shot up to $199, and in two hours of trading the shares of his corporation increased $47,850,000 in value, making an aggregate market value for the company of $3,306,000,000, another record gone. (U.S. Steel's stock is worth...
...some, however, Mr. Scoville may have outdone himself. His style is well illustrated in the following excerpt: "There under the seven stars of the bear began a battle great and grim with the half eaten carcass for the purse and death the loser's share...
...enterprising South African novelist to whom Mr. Smith "dictated" Trader Horn is a Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis. How large a share of the best-selling royalties goes to her was guessed, last week, from the fact that Mr. Smith reached Manhattan traveling second class on the Olympic and put up at the modest Fifth Avenue Hotel...
...Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. They have, however, a common quality. To both belongs the same shining desire; both share the same endless and splendid crusade to discover, scuffled somewhere in a dusty place, God's word in a golden grail...