Word: depressants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business of the country in general seems in a fairly prosperous and stabilized condition. The leading factor which is likely to improve or depress it is in all probability the 1925 staple crops. Accordingly, Wall Street today is watching and analyzing weather maps and agricultural reports as never before...
...Girl. If you are one of the agreeable nomads who blend with the hurrying theatre crowds only occasionally, this play may seem acceptable. It is a musical essay on the trials of Prohibition. The fact that a good many of the lines are frayed with age will not depress you. Yet, if you are a suspicious theatregoer from the midst of the metropolis where a good joke is an old joke in a week, you are cautioned quietly against...
...exercised by the great majority of the certificate holders none denies. The consequent demand for credit would raise the interest rates which the Government as well as the general public will have to pay on borrowed money. At the same time the mere passage of the bill would depress the price of Government bonds and increase their basis of return. In such a money market the Government would have to take care of the $8,000,000,000 of its securities which mature within the next five years and to do so would, of course, have to meet the higher...