Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drop in at the Ministry, pop several questions and some bored but confident young Laborite will drawl, "America is on the Dole, not England...
...charge of unfair competition for advertising he reminded the Press that $31,000,000 was spent to advertise radio products in newspapers in 1930. "Suppose," said he, "that radio advertising should drop off, largely through the efforts of the Press to suppress radio programs and other radio news. What then? . . . No sponsors, no money for broadcasting ... no radio industry and no income to the Press...
Demands for his protection brought forth numerous writers who pointed out that while kookaburra had been observed to seize a snake in his beak, fly with it to a great height and drop it,* there was no certainty the snake was a live one or that this was kooka's method of snakassination or that kooka was doing anything but playing...
...feasibility of St. Lawrence power developed by the State. In February the Commission brought in its report: State development of power was highly practical, soundly economic, provided transmission and distribution to the consumer were left to private companies with their network of local wires already in operation. Glad to drop Power, a losing issue for them, the State Republicans accepted this compromise proposal...
Bank Clearings in 125 leading cities last month came to $38,921,000,000. a drop of 23.9% from March 1930. Clearings for the first quarter were 22% below last year. Statements of 21 leading Manhattan banks last week showed a 10% drop in deposits since the end of 1930, although the total of 89,049,000,000 compared well with $8,230,000,000 the previous year. A feature of bank reports was the return to Second Biggest of National City Bank whose resources of $1,842,885,000 bettered Guaranty Trust's $1,806,380,000. Still...