Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, international silver market, 20,000,000 oz. of silver were offered for sale. Because no buyers appeared, the bottom dropped completely out of the market. Incensed were silver traders at seeing their market wantonly disorganized. Incensed was many a U. S. silver man whose wrath rises if the price of silver moves in any direction except...
...steel was $129 a share, the result would have been similar: The House of Morgan would have found itself alone in buying what everybody else was eager to sell at such prices. And if Morgan & Co., finding it was being made a monkey of, suddenly ceased buying, the bottom would have dropped out of the market for steel shares. Had that happened the Securities & Exchange Commission would have descended on Morgan & Co. with severe reproaches. When Secretary Morgenthau suddenly ceased buying in quantity in the London silver market last week, there was no international SEC to crack down...
Fortnight ago, a chill spell made firm the flooded tennis courts of the Park Avenue Skating Club. Grateful for the chance to exhibit her wares outdoors, Skater Vinson spun gracefully through the air, displayed startling designs to admirers. Finishing an elementary figure-eight, she suddenly teetered, screeched, bumped her bottom. Undamaged, Maribel Vinson rose, caressed her billowing skirts into place, twirled proudly...
...rest, nine got their start in sales departments; 19 as messenger boys; 25 as chem- ists or engineers; 26 as clerks or stenographers; 84 in the mills. Aggregate steel experience of the 176 executives: 5,664 years. How many were college graduates when they started at the bottom was not stated...
...architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many a disciple of the "International Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little...