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...Wall Street's menagerie of bulls, bears, lambs, wolves, the homely U. S. cow has suddenly appeared; or to put the matter less figuratively, Wall Street has seized upon the cow and capitalized her to the tune of many millions of dollars...
...York Bank is apparently loath to raise its rate lest it cause a similar rise of the Bank of England rate from 4% to 4½%, to prevent export of British gold to the U.S. Also the Reserve system apparently feels that too much money is now being used in Wall Street, and that as a matter of policy financial speculation can be restrained by holding the New York Bank rate lower than rates of the other Banks, and thus forcing funds from New York to other U.S. centres...
What child is not, at one time or another, regarded as a prodigy? Let any baby spend an hour taking a twelve-jeweled watch apart, and no parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet...
...held the record at 3,336,695 shares. Nov. 10, 1925, however, surpassed this 24-year record by seeing 3,448,747 shares sold in the Exchange open market. According to some financial scribes, this was the worst break in the market on record, but most old-timers in Wall Street considered it a slight matter beside the terrific activity of the Northern Pacific corner...
...last few years there has been almost an epidemic of temperance-drink companies, following in the highly successful wake of Coco Cola of Atlanta. Once considered local and insignificant concerns, they have sought capital in the Wall Street financial markets. Speculators are now accustomed to buy White Rock on margin or-if they dare-sell Canada Dry Ginger Ale short. Some of those temperance-drink shares have done very well by their holders in this year's stock market. Recently the Welch Grape Juice Co. for the first time since February, 1921, resumed common stock dividends by a payment...