Wall Street Lays An Egg Wall Street Lays An Egg Wall Street Lays An Egg describes a headline printed in "Variety", a newspaper covering Hollywood and the entertainment industry, on October 30, 1929, over an article describing Black Tuesday, the height of the panic known as the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (the actual headline text was WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG). It is one of the most famous headlines ever to appear in an American publication and continues to be noted in history books into the 21st century. "Laying an egg" is an American idiom, current particularly in 20th century show business, meaning "failing
Wall Street bombing agitation in the United States. The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the "Los Angeles Times", which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point. The death toll was exceeded in the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921. At noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street and stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street, on the Financial District's busiest corner. Inside the wagon, of dynamite with of heavy, cast-iron sash weights exploded in a timer-set detonation, sending the