Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
...chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added that she was "ready for feathering" when...
Dewey, joined Marshall Field at the bottom in 1922. That his rise in Marshall Field is likely to continue appeared last week as President Corley released the company's annual report. Though the retail division's profit was down from $5,029,090 in 1937 to $3,940,099, Mr. McBain's manufacturing division came back from 1937's $5,679,209 loss to net a cozy $138,165. Even the real-estate division, only one still headed by a McKinsey man, showed a profit...
...steadily deepened, there was much talk from time to time of "prosperity just around the corner." But the banking figures, as recorded by TIME'S Index, persisted in showing a continuous decline until March 1932. The F.R.B. index and the Dow Jones industrial stock averages did not touch bottom until three months later...
...might well have gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...