Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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5) De Lesseps' conviction for fraud after bubonic plague, smallpox, malaria and yellow jack had decimated some 70,000 laborers, and $400,000,000 of his stockholders' money had gone down the drain.
To anyone who saw Hedy Lamarr in Algiers, it is plain that M.G.M. is on the side of M. Delaroch. In mood and decor, Lady of the Tropics is a faithful echo of the Wanger picture that introduced Cinemactress Lamarr to the U. S., made her the most celebrated siren...
Last week provided additional evidence that the Polish crisis was just one of several factors depressing stock prices. War markets have a normal pattern: ordinarily, a war scare forces stock prices down (because businessmen want cash) .and commodity prices up (because Governments and corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran...
Italics have to be put on Chrysler earnings because of its Spartan depreciation policy. In the first half of 1937, on sales of $409,688,254, write-off to depreciation was $9.952,822. In the first half of 1939, on sales down to $342,788,293, Chrysler's write...
This week, as swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sat down in conference with strikers, besieged dealers and handlers, New York City's milk supply was halved. Home and hospital deliveries continued, but bakeries and restaurants received only a trickle.