 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.