Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instant effect of his offer of a $3.85 bond conversion rate when the monetary exchange was above $4.85 was to stop the decline of the dollar and give it an upward fillip. Simultaneously the recent Wall Street boom, partly induced by a falling dollar, collapsed (see p. 45). On the theory that Chancellor Chamberlain's fiscal acumen is very great indeed, he was credited with a deliberate and successful move to start sterling downhill...
...last March. At that time securities which cost the company $73,800,000 were worth $19,900,000. Since then, said President Jamison last week, the stockmarket had been good to him. Globe & Rutgers' assets now exceeded liabilities by $10,000,000. The court pondered his plea. Wall Street wondered if Globe & Rutgers' rise did not bear out one of its pet theories on the New Deal market: ''Buy the worst stocks and make the most money." ¶ In Ohio last week eager purchasers were rushing out to the threshing floors, offering farmers...
...descendants of his famed father made no copy for Hearst's sensational Sunday pages. Yet he was distinguished for more than benefactions to the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital. At 20, his father's son, he incurred paternal wrath by leaving Columbia University, marching down to speculate in Wall Street. At 21, again his father's son, he had made his first million in speculation, regained his father's favor and become secretary of a Gould railroad, the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas (later St. Louis Southwestern). Thus he started strongly in the Gould tradition. Three years later...
Biggest Bank In the reign of Charles Edwin Mitchell the title of "world's largest bank" passed from London to Manhattan and National City Bank. When Chase National Bank swallowed Equitable Trust three years ago, the title passed from Wall Street to Pine Street. Last week it returned to London. Rising pound and slumping dollar had placed not one but three British banks ahead of the biggest bank...
...Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts...