Word: street
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brokerage house back offices, where the huge volumes of shares traded had to be processed by hand, the working hours extended from early in the morning until well into the night. Some Wall Street firms sent their employees over to the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights for a few hours' sleep, then brought them back early the next morning. Barbers were brought in to shave them at their desks. "We were going all the time," says Fowler. "The older fellows used to work until 8 or 9 o'clock at night and then go to some speakeasy...
...else had any money left?") New York Mayor Jimmy Walker asked movie theaters not to run newsreels of the Wall Street panic, but to show instead "pictures which will reinstate courage and hope in the hearts of the people...
Cornfeld's fortunes tumbled with the end of the bull market on Wall Street in the late 1960s. I.O.S. shares, which had been going for as much as $25 in mid-1969, were selling for 400 by late...
...paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn't see you in a strip joint on 42nd Street...
...participate. Approximately 10,000 people, including about 1,000 men and contingents from all over the East Coast and from as far away as Alaska, joined the demonstration. The crowd massed at Columbus Circle on the southwest corner of Central Park and marched down Broadway to 42nd Street, the pornography capital of New York, and maybe the world...