Black Friday (shopping) corner the gold market. When President Grant learned of this manipulation, he ordered the Treasury to release a large supply of gold, which halted the run and caused prices to drop by eighteen percent. Fortunes were made and lost in a single day, and the president's own brother-in-law, Abel Corbin, was ruined. The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurs in the journal, "Factory Management and Maintenance", for November 1951, and again in 1952. Here it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving, in order to
Black Friday (Faderhead album) Black Friday (Faderhead album) Black Friday is Faderhead's fourth album. It was released 8 October 2010. It is the first album title not to follow the FH album trend, as unlike previous albums, Black Friday is Faderhead's first concept album. There are 16 tracks, each a new part of the overall story arc. It tells the story of a Friday night gone wrong, from the end of the working day, to the fun in the clubs, the inevitable crash, and all the chaos in between. A short film has been shot to tie in with the promotion of the album,