During the darkest days of depression the prices of a few leading stocks such as U.S. Steel and Amalgamated Copper dropped in the Street ten points or more below their July 30th closings, and business in the Clearing House almost ceased, but in the later Autumn, when the rapid rise in the volume of American exports began to foreshadow a readjustment in foreign exchange, the New Street prices rose again to the Clearing House level and a relatively small business in the "outlaw" market was transformed into a relatively large business conducted under the supervision of the Exchange.
"The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914"
Henry George Stebbins Noble
And after many vague turns, and even closings of rebellious eyes, I found myself, perhaps by the force of habit, at the ruins of the mill.
"Erema My Father's Sin"
R. D. Blackmore
Federal officials have brought about many beneficial unions of banks and have employed other means which have prevented many bank closings.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
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