Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mandolins & Pistols. The ebb tide against which Mr. Downey now fights is led by another lawyer and reader of economics, a man whose father sold the University of California its history library and who was known in his younger days as a Progressive: Philip Bancroft, a harmless-looking but sharp-spoken gentleman-farmer from in back of Mount Diablo near Oakland...
Lawrence F. Ebb '39, President of the Debating Council, announced last night that a new position, Director of Inter-House Debating, will be filled by the end of the week. The director is to receive a salary from University funds, an entirely new development in the financing of debating at Harvard...
Since 192 men have indicated their interest in inter-House debating, and since the aims of the plan are, according to Ebb, "to foster intellectual activity in the Houses... primarily in the field of the social sciences," the University funds are forthcoming, it is reported, because of President Conant's active interest...
...other indicators offered last week. The war scare depressed stock prices but not severely, and volume of selling was light. Demand deposits in Federal Reserve Member banks were near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year ago as compared to 14% fortnight...
...straw that businessmen have clung to during Depression II has been the steadiness of building as compared with virtually every other major U. S. industry. Although new construction was at such low ebb it could not drop much, there were other considerations: 1) rents in 1937 rose out of proportion to living costs, 2) building costs simultaneously fell, 3) the New Deal still further liberalized its construction lending policy...