Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Close any radio station, or take it over for Government...
...sight, all mechanism being underground. When vessels were sent through the Canal, the leaves could be raised in less than five minutes. Mechanical operation could be electrical with remote control. In fact, the leaves of the bascule-type bridge could be so camouflaged and with an imitation lock close by that I doubt very much whether the real lock could be located from the air. I suggested this to the Secretary of War, who referred it to the Chief of the Panama Canal Office, Washington, who said the "suggestion was interesting and would be brought to the attention...
...last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...
After a second day of this run on commodities retailers rubbed their hands. By close of business on the third day, they did not think it was fun. They roared orders at wholesalers for more sugar, flour, canned goods. Wholesalers, caught flat-footed by the rush of business, found themselves short of delivery trucks, soon found their stocks of sugar and flour near exhaustion...
...They are dropping close by us now. . . . "Tremendous explosions are shaking the city...