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Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...number of important symptoms indicate that the bottom has been reached in prices, and that all that is necessary is to give the flywheel a push and the economic machinery will spin of it" own accord...
...spread available work among as many men as possible by shortening hours, stating that Standard Oil without loss of efficiency had thus retained 2,900 employes, 9% of the total force. Standard of New Jersey's President Walter Teagle took the chair of a Hoover sub-committee to push the job-sharing plan throughout U. S. industry...
...have different economic reasons for wanting the Chaco. To landlocked Bolivia it means a possible outlet to the sea. On the west Bolivia is only 75 miles from the Pacific but those 75 mountainous miles are owned by powerful, militaristic Chile. Bolivians think that they might be able to push ships through the unsqueezed sponge of the Pilcomayo down to the Paraguay and on to Buenos Aires and the Atlantic...
Cornered bears, fat with three years' profits, fought madly to cover their short positions. Badly squeezed, they howled loud & long. Once the rally was well under way their frantic buying helped pool managers to push stocks up & up. Outstanding leader of the advance was American Telephone & Telegraph, which soared from $70¼ a share to $114¼. U. S. Steel more than doubled its Depression low of $214-; many stocks tripled in value. Large orders from European money centres swelled the volume of U. S. buying, the dollar rose smartly...