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black friday
(encz) | Black Friday,krach burzy Zdeněk Brož |
Black Friday
(gcide) | Black Friday \Black Friday\
Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In
England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of
the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a
financial panic commenced. In the United States, September
24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics
began, and especially October 29, 1929, when a dramatic drop
in stock prices contributed to the factors which began the
great depression of the 1930's.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted
in the American memory.
It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the
stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the
world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a
level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of
traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the
following six trading days.
The stock markets drop was far from over; it continued
its sickening slide for nearly three more years,
reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was
that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into
the American consciousness. After a decade of
unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was
panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The
party was over. --Wall street
Journal,
October 28,
1977
[PJC] |
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Black Friday
(gcide) | Black Friday \Black Friday\
Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In
England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of
the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a
financial panic commenced. In the United States, September
24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics
began, and especially October 29, 1929, when a dramatic drop
in stock prices contributed to the factors which began the
great depression of the 1930's.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted
in the American memory.
It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the
stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the
world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a
level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of
traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the
following six trading days.
The stock markets drop was far from over; it continued
its sickening slide for nearly three more years,
reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was
that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into
the American consciousness. After a decade of
unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was
panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The
party was over. --Wall street
Journal,
October 28,
1977
[PJC] |
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