Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until last week a plump, spectacled little Spanish woman, Senora Condeleria Brau-Soler, shrilly hawked beauty creams that she stirred up herself in a hotel room not far away. Snivelling loudly, Senora Brau-Soler led police to that room last week. There on the floor, sharp under the single drop light and the grimy, epileptic wallpaper, lay the body of her lover, a grey-haired man of 62, still handsome. Senora Brau-Soler had nearly severed his neck with a razor. Within an hour transatlantic cables were clicking, for Senora Brau-Soler's dead lover always insisted that...
...called on June 30, he had assistants consolidate them into one big bank statement. This big statement showed that all national banks had resources totaling $22,368,000,000, a decline of over $2,294,000,000 since the last year end. Deposits were $17,461,000,000, a drop of $1,783,000,000. Loans and discounts had shrunk $1,639,000,000 to $10,282,000,000. National banks held $3,352,000,000 of Government securities, one-sixth of the total U. S. debt. Of cash and balances with other banks including the Federal Reserve they...
...withstanding such unfavorable factors as a further decline of 11.8% in pig iron production in July, a drop in steel ingot output this week to about 15%, a recession in the price of heavy melting steel scrap at Pittsburgh, a further falling off in automobile production, and the failure of steel and pig iron bookings to show any noticeable change for the better, sentiment in the iron and steel industry remains buoyant...
...swoon. Bela's zombie factory is going full-blast. Corpses carry baskets, grind the mill, do the upstairs work. Bela Lugosi suggests to half-good, half-bad Robert Frazer that they turn Madge into a zombie. After moral convulsions, Frazer gives Madge Bellamy a rose on which is a drop of potent magic. After the wedding ceremony, Bela Lugosi cuts a woman's figure out of a wax candle, then melts it in a flame. Madge crumples too, is buried. Frazer and Bela Lugosi disinter and install her in a craggy castle where vultures scream and Bela Lugosi is served...
...summer sessions, Senate committees will dig into: 1) Indian conditions; 2) post office leases; 3) wild life; 4) the Alaska Railroad; 5) commercial relations with China; 6) the Farm Board; 7) air and ocean mail subsidies; 8) the failure of retail wheat, meat and sugar prices to drop with commodity prices; 9) stock exchange practices; 10) the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation; 11) the effect of depressed foreign currency values on imports; 12) the Department of Justice's handling of Cleveland's Union Mortgage Co. case; 13) water resources of the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Kern Rivers; 14) rents...