Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Daily Investment News - described itself as designed to "help the public understand Wall Street." When the Investment News was first announced (TIME, April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid in size only. It sells for 10 cents per copy...
...greatest difference between Investment News and the more conservative financial papers is in the Macfadden publication's willingness to give specific tips on specified stocks. Thus in one day's issue, there was definite bull advice on International Business Machines (headed for the 200 mark), on General Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels...
...read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found its own public among people who read newspapers only for thrills and will gladly dispense with the news if the thrills come fast enough. And now, since the Stock Market has become of interest to the People, it is Publisher Macfadden who provides the People's Stock Market paper...
...Stock market absorption of credit was regarded with misgiving. But the keynote, ringingly struck, was that there is no limit to the capacity of the U. S. consumer to consume, and that the years 1922-29 had seen a pleasing increase in the capacity of U. S. production to supply material for consumption. Thus was observed a non-vicious circle in which the manufacturer constantly produced more merchandise, the consumer constantly consumed more merchandise, and out of the horn of plenty came gifts...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...