Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time the genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
...conduct negotiations? Would the debtors default if refused another moratorium? Would such a default set back world recovery? Would a world conference on debts and tariffs, such as Governor Roosevelt had suggested, produce a solution? Would it really be better business for the U. S. to revise War Debts downward? What about the U. S. taxpayer who would have to make up the amount of the revision? Could the debts be successfully used to bargain for better trade opportunities and arms cuts? If the U. S. insisted on full payment of political debts, would U. S. private debts abroad...
...grave. Manhattan critics, as they shuffle up the aisle after a performance, have a terse way of signifying to each other their individual opinions of a play. An upward gesture of the head and a horizontal movement of the hand mean "It's in." If the hand swoops downward and the head wryly wobbles from side to side. "It's terrible." Following the curtain of The Perfect Marriage, hands swooped...
...Trade, however, forced him to sell some of his holdings because the Grain Futures Administration had said they were too large. At the news "Cutten is unloading," the price, of course, broke sharply. Last week Speculator Cutten observed: "Since that day the trend of wheat prices has been steadily downward. . . . The state of the market is attributable to Government action . . . [and] due to the fact that speculators have been frightened or driven away from it. What speculation has been done has been carried on largely by Government bureaucrats using the taxpayers' money. If men seeking a profit had been...
...campaign promises can be taken to have any save an opportunist meaning, the Democratic victory of November 8 should presage a downward revision of tariff rates. With such a possibility in mind, Dr. Benjamin Anderson has stated in the latest issue of the Chase Economic Bulletin that "the great international conference for the reduction of tariffs which the new administration is expected to call is going to work a radical change in this whole American picture, and the whole world picture." An equitable balance of trade has always been the basis of satisfactory commercial relations, and, according to Dr. Anderson...