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Riding the 5:04 in from Stamford, the stockbrokers looked a little sleepy and a little nervous. they usually come to work three hours later, but Monday on the 50th anniversary of the Stock Market's disastrous 1929 crash, they went to work in the dark...
Organizers of the "Manhattan Project" demonstration demanded that NYSE officials "delist" 61 corporations involved in the nuclear power industry. The protest was also scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash...
...demonstration marks the 50th anniversary of the "crash" of 1929, when plummeting stock prices triggered a depression that lasted a decade...
...understand what's happening to the American economy; their confusion just shows more than anybody else's--they're supposed to understand. But the public today hears only conflicting reports--"We're sailing in uncharted waters," "This is unexplored territory," and a growing fear that the 50th anniversary of the 1929 disaster may be more than a mere commemoration...
...sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1930-a sketch of two prisoners in a cell, with one bitterly denouncing his child as "incorrigible." Since then, William Steig, 71, has published nearly 2,000 drawings there; to celebrate his 50th year at the magazine, he has selected more than 250 for publication in a new book. The world of Steig is populated mostly by grotesques, human and animal, gamboling through life. More often than not, critics treat his work as art. Steig is less sure. "I suppose every cartoonist likes to be called an artist," he says...