Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheet of U. S. rescues at sea, the Maritime Commission's stubby 5,041-ton freighter Schodack at week's end added a few more numbers. Some 600 miles out of New York, plunging home through the tossing seas, the Schodack's watch spotted a flaring distress signal. As quickly as she could make it, the Schodack was at the side of the 8,181-ton Norwegian freighter Smaragd, foundering in the tumbled, ocean with a sodden cargo of coke, a crew of 18 and the captain's wife and daughter aboard. First boat the Schodack...
...Depression II losses. And for the first time since recovery began there appeared visible doubt as to its continuance. Most visible sign was the stockmarket's third successive week of reaction. Although no slump appeared in production indices- power, building, autos continued up- there was distress in two prime measures of public demand for goods; a rise was seasonally normal and money supply was at a peak, but nationwide bank debits and bank clearings tumbled. If such an unbalance-production rising, demand falling-were to continue, another inventory surplus might ensue...
Dinner at 8145 is usually attended by three or four uninvited guests (if too many come, they have to split portions). If the talk becomes listless, the impish Beaver does not conceal his distress. Raising his thin arms over his head he exclaims: "Oh God, I'm bored!" His Canadian birth has not prevented Lord Beaverbrook from conforming to the Old World type of the powerful man with the courage of his caprice. His newspapers are not strictly newspapers. Morning after George VI was crowned, the Express played the story on page one but the banner headline went...
...course papers outside their field from which they can not be excused. Most deeply submerged are concentrators in History-Literature and Bio-Chemistry, for, belonging to no formal department, they find it very difficult to get excused from an overdoes of essays seven inside their field. To alleviate the distress it would be more satisfactory if the supervision of such problems passed from the hands of the individual departments to a central body...
...Immediately responsible for Richard Whitney's downfall was a seemingly innocuous rumor-that his company was engaged in "distress selling" of Greyhound stock. Investigation proved the rumor apocryphal but proved the firm insolvent...