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Thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis...
Still later he lunched with C.W. Barren, Publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Barron is a large breeder of Guernsey cattle, and Mrs. Coolidge asked him why it is that some cows' horns curl up and other cows' horns curl down...
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week. They just stand. Shoes go by, precise shoes, sprawling de- liberate shoes, hobbledehoys, clubfoot, no sock and bunions; narrow slippers that do their walking in limousines. New men take their eyes off the floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent...
...institutional investors alike to place funds in fixed rather than liquid assets. This tendency accounts for much stock market activity, and for the even wider and greater speculation in land and improved real estate. So far has activity in both these fields gone, that the wiser heads in Wall Street and the more hard-bitten realtors of Miami are now wondering where the limit is. It is not yet clearly discernible. Yet many traders are definitely planning on "cleaning up and getting out" both in shares and town-lots. Some day many of them are going...
Many hundreds of thousands of persons, apparently, have suddenly conceived the notion of going to Florida this summer, buying some land on a shoestring, splitting it into lots during the fall, and selling at huge profits to a horde of grateful "investors" this winter. In Wall Street this is a familiar process, known technically as "accumulation" and "distribution". It works as long as the investors get real value for their money, and continues for a certain period there- after until the crop of hopeful lambs begins to thin out. Only these who own no Florida land and have no intensions...