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...hold up high prices for a while, without profit or at a loss to himself. But high prices encourage production, which sooner or later produces an unusable surplus, which in turn reduces prices again. The longer artificially high prices are sustained, the harder will be the eventual smash...
...length it became obvious, even in Germany, that after the Experts' plan provisions, there would be no money left over to indemnify mark bond holders. Accordingly a terrific smash in these securities followed on the Berlin Boerse, in which some prominent firms were hard hit. The panic was quickly communicated to other continental centers, to London and then to New York. Now there are many mark bonds ready for sale, but buyers are scarce. The aircastle has vanished, apparently forever...
...these activities, if true, are small beside Mr. Durant's market operations while he controlled the General Motors Corp. in 1919. At one time his fortune was stated to be $100 million. The smash in stocks beginning in November, 1919, wiped out most of this, and Durant was compelled to sell out his control of the General Motors Corp. to a banking syndicate. But the genius of Chevrolet soon organized his own auto company, and is said to have done well in its shares on the Curb. In 1921-22 he "came back" in Wall Street by making...
...hideous, heroic smash...
...left alone with Ela, the little Greek girl. Roman life in 41 A.D., he found, was more complicated than that. He was too handsome. Before the picture was half unreeled the Empress and one of the most luxuriously affluent Princesses were contending for his favor. Finally, he smashed up his chariot in the great race in the circus. None of this narrative, even the smash, was dangerously exciting. Probing elsewhere for values, one finds the picture useful chiefly as a reincarnation of Latin life. The forum, the circus and the homes of the patricians were carefully and generously revived...