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Lovely Rita lives in a Manhattan mansion with her vain, affected mother, possessor of a "shrill falsetto which carried well in restaurant and at the opera," and her father, whom she adores. When the story opens, her father, caught on the short side in Wall Street, is faced with financial calamity...
...been said that without differences of opinion we could scarcely have stock exchanges-or horse races. Wall Street, after some months of optimism with reservations, has lately adopted an attitude of pessimism with reservations. Yet nothing particular happens. The price of shares tends to drag, and to decline fractionally, under the notion that since things cannot get better, they are morally bound to get worse...
...that end of the roof. The office of the Department of Economics, which is directly beneath the burned portion of the roof, was very badly damaged by water. Fortunately all the valuable documents, including three sole copies of Ph.D. theses, were rescued in time. A good deal of the wall had to be torn down in an endeavor to trace the source of the fire...
Just such a difference of opinion now exists regarding the automobile industry. The stock market has recently assumed a somewhat sceptical tone on this subject; stocks of prominent motor companies have experienced marked drops. In Wall Street the talk is mostly of overproduction, inflation by sales on part-payment, diminishing margin of profit, increased and bitter competition and similar gloomy matters. On the other hand, the trade in its announcements and its advertising fails to share this melancholy tone. Alfred P. Sloan, Vice President of General Motors, declared sales of his cars to dealers this Spring would be 20% greater...
...During the war he enlisted in the 27th Engineers and was transferred to the Intelligence Department under Major Rupert Hughes. He was discharged as sergeant shortly after the armistice. He returned to New York and was on the Wall Street Journal until coming west in 1920 on a special mission for the Republican National Committee...