Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virgil's Georgics", Professor Rand, Sever...
...Virgil's Eclogues", Professor Rand, Sever...
...Dante and Virgil". Professor Rand, Sever...
...Dante and Virgil", Professor Rand, Sever...
Bulls called this reaction "corrective," "salutary," "reassuring." But the market's stubborn bears held it an omen of a real break to come. On the same day, Economist Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke Spanish words at the Hotel Astor (Manhattan). He warned: "Prosperity in the present situation is rather a state of mind than a fact. ... It is an illusion created by extraordinary financial conditions, by exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation...