Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer marked by the constant flourish of trumpets that accompanied its birth struggles, student government appears to be doing well enough, in a quiet way; and once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal organizing of student bodies...
...interest in connection with the present stock market decline is a book in the Baker Library of the Business School which deals with the first big stock inflation in history. It is called "He Groote, Tafereel der Dwaasheid" (The Great Picture of Foolishness) and is a collection of Dutch cartoons and satires on the speculative craze that resulted in John Law's Mississippi Company on the Continent and the South Sea Bubble in England. The book was stated on the title page to be "Printed as a Warning for Posterity, in the fatal year, of many Follies Among the Wise...
...true that our State is hilly; we are PROUD of our HILLS! But that does not make those who farm the hills (it takes REAL farmers to farm hills!) 'hill-billies'. We admit our population contains some of the pioneer stock that descended from Boone and his contemporaries, people who are illiterate to a degree, but you must admit that the percentage of illiteracy you 'foot note' was made upon a census that included a large foreign population that work in our mines, brought in by capital, and NOT NATIVE WEST VIRGINIANS! And if you could...
...Pont type; Chrysler relies chiefly on Walter P. Chrysler. General Motors is close to J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chrysler is the good friend of the Brady family and, more recently, of Dillon, Read & Co. General Motors has issued the huge total of 43,500,000 shares of common stock,† Chrysler only 4,423,484. General Motors sold 1,576,708 cars from January to October; Chrysler's 1928 output was about 500,000, will be 700,000 in 1929. General Motors earned $289,146,201 in the year ending Sept. 30; Chrysler, $25,049,270. General Motors stock...
...quoted as saying, astoundingly: "I am sure they [ancient peoples] had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Mr. Ford did not deny the general supposition that Ford Motor Co. (U. S.) stock in some form would soon be offered to investors, just as Ford Motor Co. Ltd. (British) has been...