Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Only real deflation has been in the plant built up by Stock Exchange firms during the 1920s. Gone are the swank shipboard branches. Gone are all branches from many a U. S. city. Gone are one-half the boomtime customers' men. Gone are one-half the 10,000 tickers that tapped out the bad news five years ago this week...
...College fraternity houses have never bedded their members, a decade ago were not equipped to feed all of them. Scattered among New Haven boarding houses, fraternity brothers gathered only at weekly meetings. It was chiefly to draw brothers together at the dining table that the fraternities in the late 1920s canvassed their alumni, put up fine new houses at prices ranging from $150,000 to $250,000, most with sizeable mortgages. The university administration beamed on this move toward a warmer campus social life...
Gerli Touch. One of the crosses borne by the Manhattan firm of Edward B Smith & Co. in the 1920s was Belding Heminway Co. The first half of this corporation the Smith firm bought from the Belding family, silk spinners since the Civil War. The stock was sold to the public at $39.50 per share...
...late 1920s Brazil began to store up coffee and future trouble for itself in the form of two revolutions. Though other coffee lands like Colombia, Guatemala, etc. can produce some 40% of the world's demand, Brazil's crop alone was larger than total world consumption in 1929. The following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance...
...just invented, Herbert Franklin decided to branch into the exciting new industry. In 1902 Motorman Franklin produced 13 automobiles priced at $1,100 each. Soon he ranked among the largest makers in the U. S. Other companies have long since outstripped Franklin in volume but by the 1920s production was running about 8,000 per year, soaring to a peak of 14,000 in 1929. Like other makers of high-priced cars, Franklin was badly hit by Depression. Production in 1932 was only 1,898 units, last year...