Word: astir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Hill, Ill. (pop. 208), site of one of earliest Swedish religious communes in the Midwest, was all astir last week. Carpenters were busily plugging a hole carelessly burned in the Old Colony Church roof last April while townsfolk prepared to feed several thousand visitors next week at a picnic to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the purchase from the U. S. Government of the Bishop Hill colony's land. Simultaneously, the attention of U. S. art critics was being called to Bishop Hill because it had just been discovered that the Old Colony Church housed the nation...
Things were astir in Detroit last week. Businessmen lunching at the Recess Club were glad to forget the lambasting their favorite industry received during the first two months of the year. That U. S. automobile production had dropped 40% from the same period in 1931, that February's output had been 2,000 below January instead of showing the usual gain, did not worry them as much as it had. Their thoughts were on the present and future instead of the past. In the present was the industry's big spring sales drive, to be mightier than ever...
...week. Arkansas led with $9,292,000. The Department of Agriculture appealed to the Department of Justice for legal help because in some cases a farmer's creditor has tried to seize his seed loan while it lay on deposit in his bank. Last week the Treasury was astir with plans and proposals for handling a deficit which threatened to repeat itself next year. Secretary Mellon announced an $800,000,000 18-year bond issue at 3⅛%. Its size was the largest, its interest rate the lowest since the War. The purpose of this long-term issue...