Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relieve the depression it lowers the gold value of its currency. In its own currency, its prices may seem higher, but in gold, the international currency, they drop, exerting pressure on the international price structure. . . . The world has seen it happen again and again...
Main factor in the 6% participation increase and the 62% drop in defaults registered last year was the inauguration of a central administration of House sports and paid managers in each House, Samborski finds...
...Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner was among the first to accept as a matter of course last week that Britain would soon be at war, cabled to King George VI: "I and my subjects are ever prepared to shed our last drop of blood for His Imperial Majesty...
...installments somewhat above Author Romains' average. Men Of Good Will is not a straightforward narrative embracing many characters and telling a consecutive story. Its hero is modern society as a whole, so that characters are introduced who seem to have no connection with each other, drop out of sight and reappear according to no apparent plan. The first volume, beginning in Paris in 1908, introduced Quinette, a murderer, Gurau, a radical deputy, Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related only in being laid in Paris at the same period...
...straw that businessmen have clung to during Depression II has been the steadiness of building as compared with virtually every other major U. S. industry. Although new construction was at such low ebb it could not drop much, there were other considerations: 1) rents in 1937 rose out of proportion to living costs, 2) building costs simultaneously fell, 3) the New Deal still further liberalized its construction lending policy...