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...also did not seem to notice that the allegedly sound economy had started slowing. By October of 1929 the Federal Reserve index of industrial production had dropped from 126 to 117 since June. Homebuilding had been down for several years, and farming had been in trouble since the early 1920s...
...Chicago native published his first book, "Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet," a biography of the 1920s New York poet. With the money he received from the book, Atlas moved to New York with the expectation of joining the Bohemian scene where he thought he would find that omnipresent genius was either inbred or quickly acquired...
...certainly a curious list, as perhaps any such list inevitably would be. Legend has it that a German newspaper of the 1920s attempted to reach a similar goal by different means when it staged a contest for the most implausible headline that could be imagined. The winner: ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND FOUND ALIVE. WORLD WAR A MISTAKE. A London magazine cited that old joke when it restaged the same contest in the 1950s. The winner: ADENAUER DIES. A moderately funny joke in its time, but also an illustration of how quickly and thoroughly news becomes dated. And not just news itself...
...nature and destiny of mankind itself? By contrast, how could any list of the century's greatest events include Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic? Heroic though it was, symbolic though it was, the flight was one of those massively hyped events by which the America of the 1920s celebrated its excitement at being itself...
BUSINESS: Is America ripe for a crash? Some scholars see parallels to the 1920s...