Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-written play, developing some exceedingly amusing situations. It is an old comedy, brought up to date by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes; but the fact that it happens to deal with gambling on a gold mine in the New York Stock Exchange and that the word "piker" seems to form a rather insufficent basis for its being advertised as "American...
Burlesque. The burlesque industry locks wheels no longer. Last week the Columbia and Mutual Circuits, long competitors, merged in a holding company, the United Burlesque Circuit. Their 45 theatres and 45 revolving shows emerge as the only burlesque "wheel" in U. S. Aside from scattered, independent burlesque stock companies the field is clear to the control of the United...
...conversion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway into the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad became a fact last week upon the grudging consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Eleven thousand miles of track between Lake Michigan and the Pacific Coast, rolling stock, terminals and other property representing total investments of three quarters of a billion dollars changed hands...
Well aware of these facts, David A. Schulte, tobacco store potentate, is entering the trinket store field on a grand scale. With an investment of $35,000,000. of which $10,000,000 will be preferred stock, he plans to establish at least 1,000 stores selling household utensils, wearing apparel, books, miscellany, at prices from 5? to $1. Already he has five henchmen scouring the U. S. for favorable sites. In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money...
President Coolidge learned of the stock market uneasiness and promptly expressed his belief that the brokers' loans constituted no real danger to the country's credit situation. Next day the market steadied itself and continued steady on following days. Average prices rose...