Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between 1932 and 1935 the new capital market dried up as thoroughly as a Nebraskan wheat field during a drought- despite the steady drop in money rates. In 1935 U. S. business resumed borrowing, but refunding, not new capital, got most of the play. The year's total was $2,267,000,000. The market's biggest year since 1930 was 1936; but again most of the new money was for refunding...
...they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduced...
Always interesting to aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline...
...grand-scale sets. It runs for two hours and 35 minutes. It also runs a gamut from babies to beheadings. The cast-particularly Miss Shearer and 28-year-old Robert Morley, whom Producer Hunt Stromberg discovered in London last year-extracts all its possibilities to the last drop of the guillotine...
...heyday of Freudian psychology during the 20s, nearly every intelligentsiac bought at least "one simple popularization of Freud's works and could reel off an impromptu psychoanalysis at the drop of a symbol. With Depression, Freud was more & more often supplanted either by such former disciples as Alfred Butler, who called his adaptation "Individual Psychology," or by Karl Marx. To some observers, Freud's declining popularity among common readers looked permanent...