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...great hills shut in the city. On one spreads a castle fortress built during the Middle Ages. When the sun sets sombre behind it, a trumpet from the far crenelated wall sounds the night watch. The other hill is the Caperzinergerg (Hill of the Capuchin monks), up which winds a long, wide walk lined with shrines of the saints. Nearby lie salt mines, from which the town takes it name...
After 22 hours, out of the dense fog that now covered most of Germany the Bremen coasted to earth again back in Dessau. It too had been repulsed by a wall of blackness. Said Pilot Loose: "Nobody could fly in that weather. . . ." Herr Professor Hermann Junkers, grieving but not disconsolate, rushed the preparation of a third plane...
...Wall Street, The news reached the New York Stock Exchange after closing hours. Next morning bedlam reigned?a bedlam of selling. It looked as though Wall Street's interpretation was that the "Coolidge Bull Market" had ended. But by luncheon time, the shrewd were profiting by the haste of the nervous. A buying reaction set in that expressed Wall Street's more considered faith in the availability of Mr. Coolidge if needed and the stability of the G. O. P. if he is not needed. The net decline of 50 representative stocks on the day of "panic" was only...
Clarence Walker Barren's Wall Street Journal, less brash in such business & financial matters than the Chicago paper, noted last week: "American banks are finding it profitable to place surplus funds in London, owing to higher level of money rates there, and such transfers of dollars into sterling have been a leading cause of firmness in the sterling rate this week. , Some American funds are also being placed in Germany, to take advantage of higher rates prevailing in Berlin...
Announcement made last week by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. that it had invested $14,000,000 of its $21,436,642 surplus profits in 114,000 shares of U. S. Steel common stock at an average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert...