Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Government Uncertainty. If Business bears no love for Franklin Roosevelt, the attitude of N. A. M. speakers towards his Administration was diplomatic. Avoiding the futile acrimony which characterized their meeting two years ago and the equally profitless sweetness which veiled their feelings last year, the delegates spoke their mind on...
It was so infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates...
They went even crazier when the Redskins scored first in the first quarter after "Slingin' Sam" Baugh had whipped a pass to the Chicago 7-yd. line and Cliff Battles had gone around right end on a fake pass. Then the Bears warmed up and scored two quick touchdowns...
When he heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper...
Such technical changes, however, are only an eddy in the economic storm now assaulting stock prices. Judged by indices, this storm last week was blowing as hard as ever. Steel production slumped another two points to 27.5% of capacity. Lumber, power and cement output dwindled. Freight cars were at the...