Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still in the Hole were nine coal-mining companies whose September bonanza served only to reduce their nine deficits from...
...quarter of a century ago $3,000,000,000 was three times the U. S. national debt. The effect of such huge purchases was stupendous. Of the whole period, 1916 was the bonanza high point; common stocks of sixty-eight major U. S. industrials paid a total of $724,900,000 to investors during that year. Du Pont, Hercules Powder Co., Remington Arms, Savage, and Winchester Arms all got big Allied orders for munitions. U. S. Steel converted a deficit of $1,700,000 before common dividends in 1914 to a net for common...
...from a bonanza, The Netherlands might be an economic burden to Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...
Catherine Prehm ("Mother") Terry, 71, onetime woman compositor on the New York Journal, where she spilled hot type metal on William Randolph Hearst's dress shirt one night, now publishes the Klamath Free Press (circ. 1,050) in Bonanza, Ore., is currently campaigning to wipe out card gambling in tolerant Bonanza...
Though nothing green grows on St. Paul, the water around it is often bright green with spawning lobsters. Few fishing grounds on earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...