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...priced opera for mass audiences. In its 30 seasons it has played 9,000 times to 19,000,000 people; and except for its first year, when it lost $700, it has made money. Though its performances some-times creak, and its singing is as uneven as a stockmarket graph, it has kept a wide public happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Black | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...President just laughed. But it was no joke to U.S. investors, who have seen the averages sink for 31 months. Last week a flickering Wall Street rally set off another wave of conjecture on one of the biggest financial enigmas of the war: the divergence of U.S. and British stockmarket prices (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Psychosis or Lag? | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...this record Morgan Stanley hurdled the worst possible underwriting hazard: a sorry stockmarket. Same day as the American Tobacco offering, the Dow Jones Industrial average slumped to an eight-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quick Sale | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...apparently intended to groom Hornsby for Manager John McGraw's job. But the Rajah lasted only one season. Reason: while substituting for McGraw on a road trip, he answered one of Owner Charles Stoneham's why-don't-you suggestions by saying: "You look after your stockmarket Stoneham, and I'll tend to the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortal No. 27 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...really have confidence in progress or even in social stability. He was an egoist, individualist, amoralist-a sort of living symptom of creeping social sickness. He had a sizable fortune from his father, but taught history in the provinces to make a little extra. Pierre himself gambled in the stockmarket, but he was no wizard. He lost money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Defeat of an Individualist | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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