Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warning of dire consequences soon to follow "if reform continues to precede recovery", Wallace B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, predicted increased unemployment and business stagnation in the next twelve months if industrial managers are not at once encouraged. The dean spoke to the Advertising Club of Boston in conjunction with the Conference on Distribution at the Hotel Statler...
With the recent resignation of Budget Administrator Douglas the public is reminded of the dire prophesies of Professor Sprague and the anxiety felt by businessmen everywhere, especially in New England, when the Harvard professor resigned last year. Now, as then, the businessmen are having qualms about the soundness of the government's monetary policy...
From time to time a rock crashed through a window of the Chronicle's office. Bomb threats directed at "the capitalistic sheet'' grew dire. Employes were threatened by telephone at home. But unarmed and unguarded. Chronicle reporters went about their business. Chronicle circulation huskies ran the daily gauntlet of labor hoodlums...
Many a U. S. corporation would like to sell additional securities for this reason or that, but all bankers know that about the only industry in dire need of fresh capital is the liquor business. Last week National Distillers Products, biggest U. S. whiskey company, filed in Washington a registration statement for an additional issue of 674,000 shares of common stock...
...some deflation of the boom which started when the Government switched from free trade to protection?a switch which enabled British manufacturers to recover much business in the home market which they had lost to cut-rate foreign competitors. All last week Britain's professionally pessimistic press economists drew dire conclusions from President Runciman's mild assertion: "There are signs that the home market has reached the saturation point...