Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something white wobbling at the bottom of Brentford Canal attracted three small boys last month. Soon they fished out a slimy human torso. In England the next thing to do in all such cases is to send for Sir Bernard Spilsbury...
...death. The fight that follows sends Joe Radek to the hospital. Warned by his Anna, who comes back to him just in time, that the miners are about to go back to work on unfavorable terms, Joe goes down into the mine with a load of explosives. From the bottom of the shaft he telephones up that unless the miners' demands are met, he will destroy the mine. The company's officials take him at his word. When Black Fury opened in Manhattan last week, it was advertised by its producers and hailed by critics as "courageous." This...
...Little Acre) lived in Georgia until about ten years ago when he moved to Maine. Either State would gladly cede him to the other. He outraged his New England neighbors by announcing that "the [Maine] population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom." His annual visits to his homeland affect civic-proud Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles for the loudly liberal New York Post on the misery...
...Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina: "I think the same sinister forces that wrecked Hoover's farm program are at work to destroy our present cotton policy." Next day he introduced a resolution which was passed by the Senate asking for an appropriation to "get to the bottom of this break...
This is just what the old Farm Board did in the autumn of 1929 when cotton prices began to fall. They poured out loans to permit the surplus to be held for an advance. In the spring of 1930 the price crashed through the artificial bottom established by the loans and the Government was left with all the bales on which it had advanced money...