Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mushrooms. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "Owing to the inexcusable conditions obtaining at present with respect to the finances of certain mushroom companies the impression is being created in some uninformed quarters that there has been a total breakdown in corporate business acumen. This is far from being the case, as the liquid cash position of the premier American corporations and their continued willingness and ability to discharge their duty to stockholders and creditors indicates...
Since Stalin & staff have put so much heart and effort directly into Molotov, last week's official breakdown might be called the first major blow to the prestige of the Five-Year Plan. Much larger than Molotov is Cheliabinsk, the newly-opened "world's largest tractor plant." When it was announced last week that Cheliabinsk "has produced nothing except experimental machines," knowing Russians merely shrugged. At Cheliabinsk such a breakdown was to be expected, at Molotov...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...
...Harvard nine has been doing queer things of late, and the trouble is not hard to diagnose. A none too brilliant victory over Pennsylvania, after a set of snappy wins over other strong invaders, was followed by a breakdown before a quite ordinary Georgetown team. Last Saturday, however, the Crimson rallied and overwhelmed Princeton, in the first Harvard-Princeton ball game since 1926. It seems as if Devens and his invincible pitching presage victory for the Crimson, over almost all comers. When he is not in the line-up, almost anything might happen, as it did in the Georgetown flasco...
...sailing for the mainland with her husband and mother aboard S. S. Malolo. He got a subpena to detain her. Policeman Dewey Mookini went to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to serve it. She was nowhere to be found. The Press was told she had had a "nervous breakdown...