Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Michigan buzzed with conflicting reports of what brought its banking situation to a head. About a year ago it was an open secret that many Michigan banks were in deep water, but Wall Street and other financial centres believed that the wave of failures that closed 84 banks last year-third largest number of closings in any State-had washed the situation clean. It was known that big Union Guardian Trust Co. had been weakened by heavy commitments in stricken Detroit real estate, that deposits had been seeping away. And until Governor Comstock retracted his first "unvarnished story...
...ring and his death three days later he lay in coma. Dr. Philip Goodhart, professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...
...know that Dempsey was offered as much as $500,000 to take one more shot. But deep in his mind was the nightmare of a thought that too much head punishment would do him little good, no matter how much money...
...boom, fortnight ago he and a platoon of Wall Street operators visited the Porcupine fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...