Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, "There is no bad blood. The going is plenty tough, but you don't seem to mind because there is good feeling all around. Generally there is close similarity between the men playing on both teams. They don't know when to quit; they fight till they drop...
...Some "big outfit" is soon going to "build houses on a belt like Ford and drop them off where the cellars have been dug." So predicted State Comptroller Morris S. Tremaine of New York last week, for the passage of a constitutional amendment to authorize State housing-subsidy bonds...
...merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...
...used on a man. . . . Without boasting, by using fists and skull and without weapons of any sort, I can whip Amos Allen on less street-space in Greenup than the length of his body. . . . The blood I shed from the three wounds was more than a quart. . . . For every drop of blood I shed - yes, for every red, sticky drop - I shall write 10,000 words in ink exposing this 'gang' work in Greenup County...
About one third of policyholders now have loans of $3,399,000,000 against their policies, generally pay annual interest at 6% amounting to some $200,000,000. This interest will continue in force, but on all new loans after January 1 the companies will get only 5%-a drop in income for which the companies can compensate in only three ways: 1) finding improved investment opportunities elsewhere; 2) raising premiums; 3) cutting dividends. All forms of investment, however, are producing a smaller return these days as a result of the cramped U. S. capital market and the New Deal...