Once in Golconda
Subtitle: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781880559857
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Economic History; Investment & securities; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Investment Finance; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; Business/Economics; USA; Investments & Securities - General; Corporate & Business History - General; History; New York Stock Exchange; Stock exchanges; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
First sentence: On Thursday, September 16, 1920, a few second after the Trinity Church bell had finished tolling noon, the pleasant fall air of downtown Manhattan (weather clear, temperature sixty-nine degrees, market up slightly) was rent by an enormous and devastating explosion.