Word: depress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slate, they will find it very difficult to convince investors to risk further capital in this essential business. . . . There is no basis for the hysterical cries of those who see, or pretend to see disaster ahead for the electric industry. Can it be that they are deliberately trying to depress the prices of sound senior securities, so that they can be bought in at hysteria prices...
...great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France, Rothschild bids but fails to get the loan. Baron Ledrantz (Boris Karloff) collaborates with Metternich and Talleyrand to assign the bonds to gentile bankers. Greatly provoked, Nathan Rothschild sells government bonds of his own to depress the market and prevent the offering of any new ones. Thus he compels Ledrantz to assign him the whole loan, sends the market up again...
...Bank of England a pegging together of dollar & pound at $4.30. This of course was sheer horse trading, the British having mentioned $3.50 as their figure. During the next few days Governor Harrison sat tight, watched mysterious forces, about which Britons thought he knew a great deal, depress the dollar so violently on the day the Conference opened that the pound was forced...
...Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are 800 ft. higher than they were 30,000 years ago when the Wisconsin Glacier pressed down upon New England. When the glacier melted the land sprang back to normal elevation. Another 100,000 years must pass before a similar glacier could descend upon & depress the region-Irving Bollard Crosby (Boston), Richard J. Lougee (Columbia...
These activities tended to depress the political stock of Citizen Walker. Whether Tammany would put him up for reelection or not remained as unsettled as ever. Mayor McKee was off to such a good start that many a wiseacre was sure that "Jimmy" Walker would never be able to regain his old job at the polls. The ex-Mayor, whom local cinema crowds were booing more & more in the newsreels, seemed to feel somewhat the same way when he suddenly sailed on the Conte Grande for a three weeks' health trip abroad. Mused he: "Why is it they've done...