Word: autumns
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Spring, though not compelled by statute to do so until the Autumn...
...Sonora Products Corp. of America were sued by the company's receiver, Irving Trust Co.. which charged them with general mismanagement and with diverting $1,500,000 worth of profits from stock sales to their own pockets. A Federal District judge acquitted the defendants, was reversed last autumn by a Circuit Court of Appeals. Last May, on the request of Irving Trust which charged that his "pecuniary position is precarious" and that he had been "fraudulently conveying away his property" until he had "substantially stripped himself of his assets," a Federal Court in Manhattan required "Tony" Biddle...
...Autumn is the biggest hog-marketing season, with spring next. Summer slaughtering is normally light, and this year the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates that it will be the lightest in 30 years, perhaps no heavier than in 1902 when only 4,750,000 pigs went to market in the July-September period. Drought and the AAA's restriction program have reduced the number of hogs on corn-belt farms 37% in the past year...
...seem to go by fits & starts, actually it has followed a strikingly rhythmical pattern. Since its foundations were laid in the summer of 1932, each cycle of revival and recession had lasted almost precisely nine months. Last week it looked as if the third cycle, dating from last autumn, had run its parabolic course and a fourth cycle was just be ginning...
...Discovery this year has been that of the 22-year-old owner who bought him for $25,000 in 1932, just after the Vanderbilt silks (cerise, white diamonds and white cap; had been registered with The Jockey Club. Properly speaking, the Vanderbilt Stables came into existence in 1934. The autumn before. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt celebrated his coming of age with a party at Cedar Knoll. Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about $1,000,000) of a fortune which he will continue to inherit...