Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Financial observers wondered if the Federal Reserve had not held down its rediscount rate largely to help the Treasury issue these certificates at a lower interest rate than would have been possible if the rediscount rate had been boosted.
Counting "uhhs" and "ohs" the Hero's words totaled 57. Defeated, discouraged, "Red" Dolan went away, wrote home to his paper that Mrs. Lindbergh must have been seasick because she was lying down. The News carried a castigating editorial, titled "Shrinking Lindy." The honeymooners continued eastward.
One morning last week a group of ship news reporters and photographers rode silently down New York Bay. Those who were not cynical were sour. They were on their way to board the Mauretania. Their assignment was to interview and take pictures of John Pierpont Morgan, who dislikes to be...
As final proof of his new sovereignty the Pope left the Vatican building, drove in his Fiat down the street that skirts the Vatican Museum to the Vatican Gardens, but did not cross his state's boundary.
The tiny hamlets of Campitello. Pagani and Avino, first in the flood's path, were wiped out. Over vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the...