Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance since the disastrous drop of May. Oldtime traders looked for even better prices, gossiped about $2 wheat...
Refuse which they had to drop out of the ship caught and accumulated on the tail, however. Came an hour when the Angeleno wabbled so badly she could not stay under her refueling plane (piloted by Paul Whittier, local millionaire). The "tough hombres" descended, went to a hospital, slept. When they awoke, bedside microphones were ready to let them talk to their public...
PLEASE CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION AND DROP ME FROM YOUR MAILING LIST ISSUE JUNE 24 PAGE 43 STOP SUCH POOR TASTE IN SELECTION OF BOOKS FOR REVIEW UNPARDONABLE DESTROYS WORK AND UNDERSTANDING ACCOMPLISHED TO DATE BETWEEN RACES AND CAN ONLY BE CONDEMNED BY EARNEST LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES...
...Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fined Standard $29,240,000, largest fine in history. Said Judge Landis: "You wound society more deeply than those who counterfeit the coin." Even had Standard paid the fine, it would have been a mere drop out of the Standard bucket. In 1911 the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Standard to "resolve into its original units, and restore free competition in the oil industry." Author Winkler suspects and says that Standard still functions as a unit...
...reverberations from the last transoceanic flight have almost died away: three aviators have added their names to the list of men who have accomplished one of the hardest feats in flying. Heroes for a few days, they now drop into the background, and the public awaits expectantly the next display of courage and ability...