Great bull market: 1920s - a new era of prosperity/by Thomas E. Hall -- "Everybody ought to be rich": the midsummer boom/by William K. Klingaman -- Fruitless efforts of the federal reserve board/by Frederick Lewis Allen -- Women in the stock market: the ladies of the ticker/by Eunice Fuller Barnard -- Panic on Wall Street: October 24, 1929 - Black Thursday/by John Kenneth Galbraith -- October 29, 1929: the day the bubble burst/by Gordon Thomas -- Commercial structure of the nation is sound/by Julius Klein -- Personal recollections of loss and survival/by Studs Terkel -- Aftermath: Crash of 1929 - the slide into depression -- Wall Street does not determine prosperity/by the New Republic -- Hoover takes action/by Albert U. Romasco -- Helping president Hoover restore confidence/by Will Rogers -- Business confidence has been reestablished/ by Herbert Hoover -- Establishing government regulations and safeguards/by Gordon V. Axon.