Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe was not even considered a contributing factor in the stockmarket's desultory decline. Then the unthinkable happened. In swift succession the great European markets closed their doors, and the selling of an entire world, hysterically trying to convert securities into cash, concentrated on the New York Stock Exchange. Bravely the governors announced their determination to keep open, but on the morning of July 31, after one look at the overnight accumulation of selling orders, they reluctantly reconsidered. For four months the Stock Exchange was shut tight, timidly reopening only after informal "black-bourse" trading had reached such sizable...
...Toronto Exchange fell sharply with the New York market. Next day Gladstone Murray, chairman of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., announced that stockmarket commentators would henceforth be banned from the air. Reason: "We've had too many complaints from people who've taken advice from some of these commentaries...
...Marlowe's famous line as its slogan. Last week Dave Smart made a little room for the public in the infinite riches of his publishing ventures. Having already sold 75,000 shares of stock publicly, he listed all 500,000 shares of Esquire-Coronet Inc. on the New York Curb Exchange...
...York Zoological Park shelters within its comfortable old Bronx plant the finest collections of animals in the world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars. Not the least of many good things to be said about him is that he has written eight books about his work and has seldom foisted on his public an uninteresting word. Dr. Ditmars' friend, William Bridges, is the zoo's gift to Manhattan newspapers. Mr. Bridges is the zoo's Curator of Publications, and it is a dull day when...
...York's 2,500 animals have one man whose unique job it is to cook and prepare their food. Among the things the animals will eat during one year are: 1,600 frogs, 50 pounds of dried flies, 220 pounds of ant eggs, 1,300 chameleons, besides such usual food as carrots, beef, bananas, apples, grain. Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards...