Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temper, Madame Karst screeched and nagged, threw pillows at her pupils. One day Helen sobbed, "I can never satisfy you!" "When you can satisfy me you won't need me any more," snapped Madame Karst. She taught Traubel to sing "down" so her tones would go over; to drop her jaw as far as possible to get a "free" tone without strain ("You can't go through a closed door"). Once Madame Karst shouted, "My God, you big cow, how can you do that? Don't cocky-doodle...
...could have heard a pica drop in the third-floor city room of Manhattan's shrill PM. Said the mimeographed announcement: Editor-Founder Ralph McAllister Ingersoll was out, advertisements were...
From the Frying Pan. If he was confused by such talk, the average businessman could hardly hope to get his bearings from the actual facts. After a drop to new lows for the year, the stock market last week sharply reversed itself. Stocks shot up 2 to 7 points in one of the biggest one-day rallies in years. Cotton too had steadied (see below). And U.S. Steel's third-quarter profits proved to be even greater than the great expectations. Its whopping $33,329,353 topped all other third-quarter earnings since...
...when overpriced cotton first started to fall, it caught the hordes of little speculators with no spare cash to protect their holdings. They were ruthlessly sold out by cotton brokers, and this, according to some cotton men, caused the second drop last week. A Memphis cotton man explained: "It's like a crap game-if you get caught, you have...
...Tune. There was some chance it might be, if the drop in prices brought out enough hoarded cotton goods. There was little doubt that large quantities (one estimate was 1,000,000,000 yards) had been held back in hope of higher prices. OPA had been required to adjust the price of cotton goods upward every month, in line with the rise in raw cotton. This month, for the first time in months, OPA has not had to raise the price. Now, in fear that the peak had been passed, manufacturers were disgorging...