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...Wall Street is correct in the statement that Henry Ford is going into the oil business, the confusion and consternation caused thereby will be enormous. Mr. Ford, it seems, intends to establish gas stations which will sell gasoline exclusively to Ford owners at sixteen cents a gallon. The fearful consequences to the automobile, oil and autobody industries are easily apparent. The demands for Fords will be increased to such an extent that the Ford plant will probably be distended to the bursting point in order to satisfy...
...Curtis, Vice President of the Bank of America, and Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Medical Director of the Life Extension Institute, agree that the banking institutions of Wall Street are breeding-places for tuberculosis, anemia and other disease conditions among their women employees. There is not a bank in the "Street" that is not supporting one or more tuberculous employees in hospitals or sanitariums, says Mr. Curtis. The rapid, artificial, neurasthenic life; the poor physical standards of clerical workers; unhygienic clothes; the feminist cigarette are among the culprits blamed for these conditions. The Federal Reserve Bank has an efficient medical department...
...southeast corner of Wall and Broad streets, however, there is a low, massive building with no label at all. Over its door one sees " 23 Wall Street"?that is all. Not to know it, however, argues yourself unknown, for this is the office of J.P. Morgan...
...personality of Mr. J. P. Morgan himself is as indefinite a conception in the public mind as the identity of his office to the tourist in Wall Street. Like the latter, he is thought of as substantial, powerful, unobtrusive?and there one stops. He seems more an institution than a human being with likes and dislikes, habits, abilities...
Accordingly, publication of the company's unfilled tonnage as of Aug. 31 was eagerly watched for in Wall Street. The future business revealed by the Company's report was 5,414,663 tons, as against 5,910,763 for July 31; 6,386,261 for June 30; and 7,403,332 for the peak of demand on March 31, 1923. The high record since the War is 11,118,468 tons on July 31, 1920. This decrease of 496,000 tons, though not unexpected, was nevertheless disappointing...