Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly melodramatic canvas of the evacuation of a Missouri farmhouse: the ruthless soldiers, the fainting mother, the weeping daughters, the stalwart father. When in 1879 Thomas Ewing ran for Governor of Ohio, George Caleb Bingham sent Martial Law junketing from town to town in that State on the crest of a flood of anti-Ewing pamphlets. General Ewing was defeated...
...rivers might not be entirely under control in times of major floods, but the crest of the floods would have been lowered. . . . Power lines would have flung an intricate, interconnected network over the whole region. . . . Every farmer's family would find its work lightened by the use of electricity. New manufactures, perhaps new inventions, might have restored some of their lost traffic to the rivers. Possibly recreational uses would have supplanted commerce on most of them. Playgrounds of all sorts . . . would be more extensive and more thickly spotted over...
...From some nearby point a reaction may be expected and new buying should be deferred until then. This despite the fact that an advance through 98 would indicate probable further rise to near the 100 level before reacting. It is better to buy on a reaction than on the crest of a wave that has already gone a considerable distance. American Radiator (ADT) and Bendlx Aviation (BEX) for low priced issues seem to hold distinct possibilities. We still like Southern Pacific (SX) among the rails, and oddly enough there ought to be two or three points in National Power...
House of Budweiser. Under the foremost crest of the beerage, the A and the eagle of Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch mailed to its stockholders its first annual report ever certified by an outside firm of accountants. Messrs. Haskins & Sells did not cast up the Anheuser-Busch statements for any army of public investors. The brewery of the world's most widely distributed beer has less than 200 stockholders. And were it not for the few thousand shares that have dribbled into public hands in the last few years, a single report handed around at a family reunion of the descendants...
...last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker's north peak, four days later through deep new snowdrifts to the crest of the south peak...