Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damage which might have resulted from a drop through both partitions cannot be estimated. It was believed that it would have killed anyone struck. The running water probably was the result of broken pipes. Roofing experts were called immediately...
Anyone between 15 and 60 who wishes to insure himself against accidents for 24 hours-maximum indemnity, $7,500-will drop a quarter in the Insurograph and pull a lever. A glass panel slides back; he writes his name and the name of his beneficiary. The time of day is then stamped on the policy (issued by Great Northern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee), it is violently ejected from the machine and the customer is thereupon properly insured against "loss of life, limb, limbs or time by accidental means...
...statistics: "The 1937 production of 53 crops was 13% greater than the 1929 production and 40% greater than the 1936 production, which was considerably curtailed by drought. The effect of this increase in the face of declining business activity and urban purchasing power has been a sharp drop in farm prices. Since December 1936 they have shrunk from 126% of the pre-War level to 104% of the pre-War level. The present level of farm prices is approximately 30% below that of 1929." Hence, concluded Witness Wallace, U. S. farm income for 1937 fell from five...
Eccles. After Commissioner of Labor Statistics Isador Lubin had described the 1,550,000 drop in employment in November and December as "sharper than any which had occurred in this country in recent years,"* Marriner S. Eccles, thin-lipped chairman of the Federal Reserve System, took the stand. Marriner Eccles was one of the first New Deal officials to come out for balancing the budget. Last week he announced that he still favored a balanced budget but that it could be obtained now only by increased taxes, which would be deflationary; so would any cut in Government expenditures...
...that nothing should be done to hinder American participation in an overseas war, and it has shown the popularity of the strange belief that "a revitalized American foreign policy" for peace (to quote from your editorial) needs the sanction of a nation ready to go to war at the drop of a hat. Robert S. Brainerd...