Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times Diamond Corp. buys more than it sells, in good times it sells more than it buys, annual turnover varying from as low as $15,000,000 to as high as $90,000,000. Commercially, even great De Beers is subordinate to its potent subsidiary. During the darkest Depression days De Beers ceased selling diamonds entirely so that Diamond Corp. might have more resources to throw to the support of uncut diamond prices. Even then Diamond Corp. could not afford to buy all the diamonds offered by the alluvial producers, and the industry resorted to a strict quota system...
Actually, this grand effect derives from the dynamic possibilities of the material, which the producers of the film had the good sense to handle truthfully and artlessly. Asia, if not the darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen...
...onetime G. M. paymaster, accused G. M. of obtaining the petition signatures by intimidation, promised to complain to the National Labor Relations Board. But that many a G. M. worker hated & feared the union for depriving or threatening to deprive him of his pay was one of the darkest clouds on U. A. W.'s horizon...
...darkest days of the 1929 stockmarket crash, when almost every rumor was a libel, Broker Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan sauntered up to one of his partners, said cheerily: "Well, I understand I'm broke. Guess we'd better give all the boys in the office a two weeks' bonus to prove...
Vague though the talk of "hot money" control was last week, brokers at home and abroad gave it the darkest interpretation. In London, where "hot money" is called "funk money" and any interference with international trading is deplored, a thoughtful broker declared: "It appears that Mr. Roosevelt once more is striving to achieve a reputable objective without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign...