r.;- Any day now, you?Ûªll be heading about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the great stock market crash. On Wednesday, ?ÐÊ^October 23, 1929, industrial prices fell 6 percent. Trading exceeded six million shares. That was the prelude. .</br></br>*>!J-The -next day became known as ?ÛÏBlack Thursday.?Û? Volume hit more than 12 million åÇshares, then an all-time record. Brokers and their aides screamed margin calls long into ^the night.' å£ October 29?ÛÓTerrible Tuesday ?ÛÓ was the ?Û¢-?Û¢crusher. It peeled 11 percent off prices, as 16 million shares were chaotically traded.</br></br>-XToday two million shares constitute a good day.) So inundated were the brokers and the -sNew York Stock Exchange?Ûªs staff that trading sessions were truncated to three hours from i -.the usual five.</br></br>~\Fear and panic stole into the strongest hearts and minds. -Government officials, bankers, and businessmen declared economic conditions to be ?ÛÏfundamentally sound.?Û? Nobody believed 'them.</br></br>Today offerk a triumphant contrast. At the top of a long -bull market, it?Ûªs hard to get many people to believe that conditions aren?Ûªt ?ÛÏfundamentally sound.*?Ûª This is one of the few -times in the postwar period when the prophets of recession aren?Ûªt freely prophesying.