Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always new wrinkles. The talk of the 1934 show was rubber mountings for engines, to reduce noise and vibration. First introduced by Chrysler two years ago, it is incorporated in many new models, notably in Elco's Veedette 28. Another new twist is Dodge's "Multiple vee bottom," a system of overlapped planking which reduces side spray, adds stability and speed...
...quidnuncs failed to agree that he had chosen the more astute choice. Their varying reasons : 1) By telling the worst and putting the worst possible complexion on it he destroyed fears born of uncertainty, hastened the financial community's acceptance of the facts, cut down to a solid bottom on which a new structure of confidence could be built...
...government has been given us. Some of the details of his program do not appeal to me particularly, but there is every reason to think that we are on the road which leads us out of the depression. England, in common with the rest of the world, reached the bottom of the economic cycle in the summer of 1932, but in the United States the break did not come until the winter of 1933. The banking situation and the maintenance of the gold standard after the other countries had left it has held...
Nobody cheered last week when the Treasury Department, just before the end of the first half of its fiscal year, found itself with a $14,768.621 surplus. It was merely a bookkeepers' surplus-a row of eight figures in black at the bottom of a column of current running expenses. The real story was on the other side of the ledger. To nine fat figures in red labeled "Emergency Funds," a tenth was last week added as the 1934 deficit climbed over the billion mark for the first time this fiscal year...
...unbelievable quantities. Last year more oil than anywhere else outside the U. S. and Russia spouted from Venezuelan wells, and every gallon of it pays a 7% to 10 % royalty to the Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal...