Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue chips of the late bull market were hammered and sliced-the better the stock, the bigger the break. On this day A. T. & T. fell 24 points; Columbia Carbon, 61; Consolidated Gas, 20; Electric Power & Light, 13; General Electric, 47; Eastman Kodak, 41; Otis Elevator, 60; New York Central, 22; Montgomery Ward, 15; U. S. Industrial Alcohol, 39; Standard Gas & Electric, 40, etc. etc. etc. ... In Rio de Janeiro the coffee market already frightened (TIME, Oct. 21), closed altogether. But in Chicago a bushel of wheat was worth 3 cents more...
Such stocks as American Telephone, Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian Pacific, New York Central, Standard Oil of New Jersey, U. S. Steel, Westinghouse, all sold at some time to yield between...
...happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. A belated ticker recorded gains in significant stocks. New York Central was three points above Monday's close. Hysteria, it was hoped, had met its master in the Banking Power of the U. S., which appeared to have bought a good proportion of U. S. Industry...
Journalism and politics merged into one profession for "Tay Pay." Politics gave him his material, journalism his reputation. Leaving Ireland in 1870, he became subeditor of the London Daily Telegraph, was London correspondent for the New York Herald, Sun, Tribune. Ten years after his arrival in England he was in Parliament, and there he stayed. Founding political newspapers was his lifelong habit. Among them were the Star (still shining), the Sun (set), the Weekly Sun, M. A. P. (Mostly About People...
...Editor Crowell left the American, in came Editor Sumner Newton Blossom, onetime managing editor of the New York Daily News, editor of Popular Science Monthly. But he came not as chief editor. Said President Lee W. Maxwell of Crowell Co.: "The American will have no chief editor for the time being. The editor will doubtless emerge...