Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpeg the French internal price of wheat. After the farmers had dispersed grumbling, the Government announced that within three months the price of wheat will be gradually unpegged, and French farmers will be obliged to report the area they intend to sow in wheat to the State which may curb any farmer who seems likely to raise over 100 quintals (367 bushels...
...Municipal Council of the new, white all-Jewish City Tel Aviv (pop.: 105,000) took to rent-fixing to curb speculation. In New York U. S. Zionist Louis Lipsky said: "Palestine is building itself up and has all the symptoms of a boom." Begging for more idealism in Zionism, he reported seeing in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the same Jewish "brokers, speculators and profiteers that used to be seen in The Bronx during the building boom...
...steps of New Lecture Hall awaiting Dr. Worcester's weekly chat on What Every Harvard Man Should Know. A shiny new car droe up, bearing on its radiator cap an eye-attracting made chromium figure. The two Freshmen gazed at it a moment, then suddenly rushed down to the curb for a closer look. They peered at the statuette closely, ouriously, in apparent puzzlement. Them, with a quick beam of vadiance, "We'll ask Dr. Worcester...
...Reno, Mrs. Mildred Tilton Holmsen sat on the curb in front of her hotel, wriggled her bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased...
...remarks, a stockholder usually gathered the impression that, what with rising taxes and general social unrest, the outlook for the sewing machine business was practically hopeless. Yet for years Singer profits ranged between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 annually. The stock, traded inactively on the New York Curb, sold as high as $631 per share (last week's price: $185), and dividends ranged as high as $48 a year...