Word: abortment
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...Typical of the capital goods makers who scarcely felt the '37 boom (thus helping to abort it), American Car & Foundry declared a dividend on its common stock for the first time since 1937, earned $5,161,130 (compared with a $10,777 loss the year before) for the year ended April 30. A. C. & F. was one of the first heavy-industry companies to convert its plants to war use. It is producing about $200,000 worth of tanks (twelve...
Presumably the reasoning behind this drastic behavior was that : 1 ) Germany's smashing offensive portended a quick peace, which would abort the aircraft and lesser export booms, 2) a Germanized Europe and axified world would end all extra-hemispheric trade, close European markets to North & South American commodities. Another bearish factor was technical: margin calls. When the selling started, swarms of little fellows, others not so little, were forced to raise a few hundred dollars with which to keep their positions in war babies like North American Aviation (down 8⅞ points by Tuesday's close...
Henry Morgenthau Jr. was happy but hard-put. He knew he was in for some ribbing. Republicans had wanted to abort some of the very Treasury kittens which the Secretary now proposed to drown...
Having found their Hitler, Knight Deatherage ("Judaism and Communism are synonymous") proposed to Captain Campbell that they go abort organization, contact "leaders of main groups throughout the nation"-Father Coughlin, Kansas' anti-Semite Gerald Winrod, John Frey of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, the American Legion's Americanism Commission Director Homer Chaillaux,* Louis John Taber, master of the National Grange, Walter Garrison of the Associated Farmers of California-"in all, men who are heads of large groups on our side of the fence." George Deatherage's meeting to bring these leaders together...
...that Navy's ace dropkicker, Bill Ingram, never got where he could perform his specialty. Late in the last quarter, the break of the game came when, climaxing a Navy march of 50 yards, Ingram passed to Fike and Army's Sullivan, trying to abort what looked like a touchdown, spoiled the play by bowling into Fike. The field judge ruled interference, gave Navy the ball on Army's 3-yd. line. With four downs to put it over, Navy's Sneed Schmidt smashed through on the third. Ingram kicked the extra point. Two minutes later...