Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock market is like a cough", he continued, "at first only irritating the throat very slightly, but gradually getting worse with each successive explosion until it has to stop. In the same manner each drop in the market will lead to another low level, and finally, after the general process of weeding out all uncertain securities has been completed, a rise will necessarily follow...
...painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (see p. 16) agreed to be best man at the wedding on Oct. 4 of his nephew, Lawyer Richard B. Scandrett Jr. of Manhattan, and Mary Emma Landenberger, of Philadelphia, newspaper reporter. Legend: Lawyer Scandrett first...
...this copper is already sold, buyers delaying delivery until they need the metal. A survey of the earnings of nine leading copper companies made last week showed profits for the first half were $17,000,000 against $40,000,000 in the same time last year, a 57% drop...
Only a very minor fraction of public opinion today favors the diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by the U. S. If and when a major fraction favors such recognition the Department of State will promptly drop its objections and formulate a new principle whereby diplomatic relations may be resumed. Last week two potent travelers returned to the U. S., shifted from the major to the minor fraction group by announcing their conversion to Russian recognition...
...Mile. Vital to railroaders, important to all men of business, is a figure reported last week by the Bureau of Railway Economics: Class I railroads handled freight traffic amounting to 34,419.086,000 net ton miles this June, a drop of 6,320,943,000 as against June 1929. A "net ton mile" is accomplished every time one ton of freight is carried one mile. The June drop in ton miles was 15.5% compared to 1929, while the six-month average was only 11% under...