Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome young son of one of Nashville's leading department store owners. His name was George Arthur Sloan and, as Secretary of the Copper & Brass Research Association, he had learned the art of running trade associations. He plunged into the job of finding new uses for cotton textiles?cotton wall paper, cotton writing paper, cotton roofing...
...long slide from $1.04 to 3¢ per lb. In 1931 The Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after President Roosevelt took office Major Angas wrote The Coming Rise in Wall Street, which was followed by a 90% jump in the stockmarket. More to the point, Major Angas has been adviser to the big London stock exchange house of Myer & Co., has a short but imposing list of clients and drives a Rolls-Royce...
...long time Wall Street has buzzed with chit-chat about a new Angas pamphlet. Manhattan brokers urgently cabled for summaries the moment it was off the press. Financial pundits found long paragraphs in the scraps that drifted across the Atlantic. Last week The Coming American Boom was published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster...
Irreverent Wall Streeters make much of the fact that Major Angas' next to last pamphlet was The Coming Collapse in Gold. In this, predicting world-wide abandonment of gold as money and its decline in terms of paper-money values, he has been completely wrong to date...
...question which has troubled businessmen all summer: How much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules of all four popped the same startling answer: U. S. farmers will actually have more money to spend this year than...