Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Sherwood Anderson wandered over the Virginia hills from his Troutdale farm to the town of Marion, the townsfolk, inquisitive, turned out to see the Famous Author. But when he wandered over again and bought their printshop, lock, stock and cuspidor, with its two weekly papers, their reaction was not so simple. They were proud that the Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that...
...American I. G. Chemical Corp. included on its directorate Herren Doktoren Bosch, Schmitz and Greif of I. G. Dyes, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Chairman Mitchell and Warburg of the two Manhattan banking houses, and President Edsel Ford of Ford. What proportion of the new company's stock will be held, respectively, by its U. S. and German interests is not stated. Control, however, was assumed to rest at Frankfort on the Main...
Possibly unchastened, but certainly cautious, the Stock Market last week edged its way back across the Four Million Shares a Day mark, succeeded in maintaining a bullish, though still rather bilious, complexion. Yet only the memory of its recent crisis, plus the still large, though lately deflated, loans to brokers, could have kept the Market from lowering its horns in another bull stampede. For of bullish portents there...
...Haven railroad stock crossed par for the first time since 1913. It sold at 279 in 1887, at 129 in 1913, at 9? in 1923, last week at 100?...
Trading in shares of American Telephone & Telegraph last week received a new impetus when A. T. & T. closed at 2341, giving the company's 13,132,154 outstanding shares a book value of more than three billion dollars. Standard Oil of New Jersey and U. S. Steel have stock valuations of more than one and a half billion, but only General Motors ($3,675,750,000 common, and over four billion with common and preferred) exceeds the A. T. & T. figure...