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Changing the Rule. In 1929's wide-open trading, brokers had wide latitude, could set margin requirements as low as 20%. Stock pools, and a hundred other maneuvers to manipulate the market, were part of the game. Even companies themselves helped pyramid the shaky market, dumping in funds for margin buying. When the funds were pulled out, it helped bring on the collapse...
...became a smash in American tough-guy roles. In a remarkable bit of legerdemain, he transferred his popular film personality to his singing style, mixing toughness and sentiment. Onstage he wears a sharply cut suit and sings (in passable French) from a boxer's stance in a wide-open baritone. "I'm just about everything Europeans instinctively admire about Americans," he admits...
Senior fullback Dick Martin has also come through for Caldwell, leading the League in rushing with 364 yards, scoring four touchdowns, and kicking eight extra points. Wingback Frank Agnew, who has been bothered by an injury all week, has been very effective in Caldwell's wide-open single-wing. Sophomore John Sapoch is the quarterback...
...land grant of 3 sq. mi.-a transaction authorized by Congress and executed by President George Washington (who owned vast tracts in eastern Ohio himself). Part of Zane's Trace became in time the National Road (now U.S. Highway 40), which linked the East with the wide-open Midwest and helped populate Ohio with a swarm of new settlers (250,000 in ten years alone). Last week, some 100 miles to the north, Ohio completed a new kind of link between East and Midwest: the 241-mile, $326 million Ohio Turnpike...
...Methodist Conferences of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi announced plans to build a million-dollar hotel with a modern church on a 30-acre tract in the wide-open gambling town of Biloxi, Miss...