Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the potent House Appropriations Committee last week: "I do not think there is any question but that the insiders in Wall Street brought on the present situation in an attempt to embarrass the Roosevelt administration." *Fast on its feet for once, the New York Stock Exchange month ago began a study of daily average short sales in A.T. & T., General Motors, S.O.N.J., New York Central. U. S. steel, last week announced that so far they were only 22.7% of the total...
Prime evidence of current business recession are steel operations, last week off 41 points from the year's high of 92.3% of capacity. To this statistic U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest industrial organization, bellwether of steel production and of New York stockmarket prices, last week gave the retort direct, by declaring its first dividend on common stock in five years. It announced net income for the first nine months of 1937 as $90,852,853 (after deduction of $4,500,000 for undistributed profits taxation) which amounts, after preferred stock dividends, to $8.26 for each...
...cost of over $1,000,000 the New York Stock Exchange installed a high-speed ticker service of N. Y. Quotation Co. The new tickers printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme...
...cold in upstate New York last week to go around without a heavy overcoat. In the University of Rochester's Strong Auditorium, although the inside temperature was comfortable, the audience felt sympathetically chilly when two scientists told how they had shivered in the interests of scientific research. The two were big Eugene F. DuBois of Cornell University Medical College and small James D. Hardy of the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology...
...like. He has also included a lot that it did like. The novel runs to approximately 250,000 words, gives speaking parts to more than 100 characters, covers a range of scenes that would wear the shoes off a dozen reporters. Attempting to do for all New York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly...