Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week; Bethlehem to $57.50, up $3.13; Ludlum to $32.50, up $3.50; Colorado Fuel & Iron preferred to $45.87, up $3. The industry was operating at only 52% of capacity, lower than a year ago. What encouraged speculators was the fact that in the face of a sharp dip in automobile production, operations had actually risen five points since the year end. U. S. steel shipments for January showed an unexpected increase of nearly 60,000 tons over the previous month. The price of scrap, steel's principal raw material, was still rising. Better demand for structural steel was expected, since...
...miners voted to "go forward with Roosevelt, fighting under his banner for re-election." As "evidence of our sincerity of purpose," they authorized the executive board to dip into the general war chest "in support of this program...
From an airplane 1,600 ft. high the dip of the sea horizon would be one-third of a degree...
...Kennedy plays the urbane host at small dinners famed throughout the Capital for the excellence of cave and cuisine. In the private cinema theatre he may later entertain friends like Senator Wheeler, Legalite Cohen, General Counsel Burns. In the mornings before breakfast he takes a dip, naked, in the swimming pool...
Taking the long view of trade prospects, most businessmen were frankly sanguine. NRAftermath jitters might deepen the current downward dip in the business curve but when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty...