Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first U. S. Gould was Nathan Gold of England. A later Gould was Colonel Abraham, killed in a battle during the Revolution at Ridgefield, Conn. Jay Gould built a railroad empire and fought his battles in Wall Street. In many ways Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange...
While rumors flew and suits piled up, Treasurer Thompson and a few others stubbornly insisted that the company would not be wrecked. In Wall Street, which remembered Richard Whitney and Ivar Kreuger, savage wit ran riot. F. Donald Coster's epitaph became: "He couldn't face the Musica...
...Trust Co., who last year predicted that the bottom of Depression II would come in the first half of 1938. Last week tycoonry's favorite seer gave his followers a lavish exhibition of his powers by predicting practically everything for the coming year except the dew point in Wall Street at midnight on Friday, June 23. Excerpts...
...fiction to shame, the McKesson & Robbins story ran the gamut from gunrunning to human hair for sale, even included a trapdoor. And at the plot's centre was one of the most incredible characters that ever left fingerprints in the sands of time-the man who moved in Wall Street as Tycoon F. Donald Coster...
...most revealing thing that can be said about the fine books of 1929 is that in those brash days even Wall Street believed limited editions a good thing. Once only millionaires and professional bibliophiles collected first editions. By the late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...