Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words and topical references. "We [Canada & the U. S.] have the same definition of what constitutes greatness and goodness in human character. . . . We give our admiration and affection to the same type of leadership. Will anyone deny that your great men and our great men are singularly alike at bottom...
...still to run to Peconic in millions from their deep winter beds off Hatteras; that a flounder's eyes are on the right of his whale-smashed face, a fluke's on the left; that a hooked flounder will often jump like a trout; that muddying the bottom will bring flounders and flukes from fathoms around; that the bonefish grows up from its larval stage by growing more than 50% smaller until it assumes its adult shape...
Meantime the No. 1 U. S. papermaker, colossal International Paper & Power, has also been putting its corporate house in order, and for the same reason: a paper boom. After dragging bottom at $41 per ton, newsprint prices were increased slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...
...crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed he wreck just as Flyer Amelia stepped out white-faced. Said she: "Something must have gone wrong...
...inflation. In view of the measures which the Administration has taken to promote a rise in prices, there can be little doubt that a process of inflation of a mild degree is underway. But with Governor Eccles talking about a balanced budget--a political impossibility--and clinging to rock-bottom interest rates, it will take more than mere "monetary monkey business" to stem the flood when it threatens to overflow its appointed bounds...