Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making the Tide. Notable indeed in the annals of the U. S. had been the Thomas efforts. The dazzling light of inflation having burst upon him more than two years ago, he was by January 1933 already filibustering in the Senate for "reflation or revolution." In February on the very day that Michigan's banks were collapsing like a house of cards, he wrote letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress...
...staggering scandal which burst at Bayonne last week, appropriately followed by a minor earthquake, could only be appreciated from the point of view of Frenchmen who are justly proud of their pawnshops...
...letter received by insurance companies in 1932 from the Minister of Labor, then M. Albert Dalimier. The letter stressed the fact that under French law insurance companies may hold part of their funds in pawnshop bonds, urged the desirability of doing so, mentioned Bayonne. As the scandal burst last week Premier Chautemps called to his office Letter Writer Dalimier, now Minister of Colonies. "I signed that letter purely as a matter of form," protested M. Dalimier. "I was asked to do so by Julien Durand[then Minister of Commerce] and all the world knows that the bonds of a French...
Sympathetic U. S. women, alighting in Moscow at dawn from their comfortable tourists' sleeping cars, have been known to burst into tears at the sad sight of Russians in their utterly drab, cast-offlooking clothes...
...stuck out almost as far as the necks of the giraffes which he had had collected in Africa for the Washington Zoo. His Chrysler Building, built to house a population greater than that of Wamego, was not completed until almost a year after the bubble burst. Chrysler Motors had expanded at the top of the boom, to face a dwindling market. It was some satisfaction to him that in 1932 Plymouth was the only car of the Big Three to increase its sales (18%) but when he footed up the bill for that year Chrysler Corp. had a loss...