Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first month of the law. They received approximately $375,000,000 in cash, of which $300,000,000 came through cashing in the reserve fund. The number of applicants declined from 985,000 the first week of the law to 90,337 in the fourth week, an average drop of 50% per week which indicated that total Bonus loans would not exceed $800,000,000. Administrator Hines, no friend of the bonus law. refused to be encouraged by the decrease in applications, clung stubbornly to his $1,000,000,000 estimate for the bonus loan total. However, not until Bonus...
March is the best month for Steel Production. The only years in which April did not start with a drop in production were 1928 and 1922. 1931 proved no exception, as last week steel production fell from 57% of capacity to 55%, the first decline of the year. Said Iron Age: "This set-back is not regarded as signifying anything more than exaggerated caution." Steel prices remain firm, highish, but it is well known that naming a price and doing business at it are not the same thing in the steel industry...
...Loadings remain smaller than at any time since 1921, but the end of March showed an unexpected, unusual increase. Nevertheless, totals remain 15% below 1930. 22% below 1929, and the first 75 railroads to issue February reports showed a 53% drop in operating income. New freight cars ordered during March came to but 2,166 against 4,464 a year ago, while only eight locomotives were ordered against 43 last year. But orders for rails totalled 14,850 tons against...
...opposing side. The catcher must immediately claim the same by making a mark with his heel at the spot where he made the catch. A "goal" is obtained by kicking the ball over the opponents' cross bar, from the field-of-play by any kick or drop kick except a kick-off or drop-out, without touching the ground or any player of either side. A "drop-kick" is a drop kick taken by the defending side after a touch-down or after the ball has been in touch-in-goal or has touched or crossed the dead ball line...
Marines vs. Harvard: "Zimmerman, the Marines' fullback, scored 4 points against Harvard in 1930 by drop-kicking a field goal from 10 yards inside his own half of the field. Lieut. Moe, captain, is best known as a member of the 1928 California Olympic Champion crew. Two years ago Bauer was one of the star players of the Naval Academy's football squad, whilst a few years ago McCaffery was a sensational quarterback in Pacific Coast football, paying as a member of the Santa Clara University. Hughes is one of the team's best forwards...