Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumbled into the red in 1930, piled up big deficits the next two years. Reason for the decline was the state of tin which,, like most of the world's leading metals, was caught out on a limb by Depression. In spite of cartel restrictions, output did not drop as fast as consumption from 1929 through 1931 and prices dropped from 45? to 24? per Ib. In 1932 production was pulled below consumption. Two years later prices were up to 52? per Ib., and the company showed a profit of $424,500, even though operating at only...
...known secretaries in obscure offices, to call upon full professors in their most beautiful red silk pajamas and have them like it, or, sometimes, dislike it--in short to examine with more or less impunity whatever takes one's fancy or irks the sense of justice: all such should drop in on Wednesday night at the CRIMSON building and consider entering the editorial competition beginning on that date...
...August estimate. Since the official estimates largely determine cotton prices there is big money in guessing right what the next estimate will be. Fortnight ago more than a dozen cotton brokers and experts began this guessing game. Most of them daringly went out on a limb, estimated a record drop of 500,000 to 700,000 bales below the Government's August estimate of 12,481,000 bales. One noon last week they had the shock of their lives. Trading stopped as usual as the Government's Sept. 1 cotton estimate came over the wires...
That afternoon a crowd of 15,000 watched the five surviving planes drop in. First flyer to finish was Brooklyn's William G. Warner in a Standard Vultee. But the race was won neither by Pilot Warner nor by Pilot Louis Brewer, the only other male left in the race. For the first time in six years the Bendix Race went to a woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across...
...talent budget whose maximum is said to be $15,000 a week, Lux has favored the listeners of the country with an hour of high-priced acting each week from a cross-section of the cinema's most glittering stars. Since radio advertisers are quick to drop a flop, the Lux show clearly demonstrates that certain cinemactors make excellent salesmen for certain products. In the coming season, Lux plans to offer listeners such Hollywood celebrities as Jack Oakie, Helen Twelvetrees, Lily Pons, Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Brian Aherne...