Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when his ship could not get its landing gear down. He weathered innumerable forced landings and is one of the few air travelers who ever landed on an airport backwards. On that occasion the pilot overshot Chicago airport, bounced off the far end of the runway, cleared an embankment, and fetched up in a soggy meadow. The passengers sat, wondering what next, when suddenly the grounded airliner started backwards out of the swamp, rumbled over the embankment and back on the runway tail first, towed, they soon found out, by an airport tractor...
...brusque little essay on himself, published in a Soviet magazine in 1926, he said: "For me, a picture is never either an end or an achievement, but rather a happy chance and an experience." Max Jacob once said: "He saves himself by being an acrobat...
...then the foulest final quarter on record. In 1938 U. S. industry experienced six months of stagnation, then six of brilliant recovery. It was logical to expect, therefore, that corporate earnings for 1938 would turn out to be substantially, but not appallingly, below 1937. By last week enough year-end statements were out to show that, with the inevitable exceptions, this was the case. Samples...
...most important facts revealed by year-end statements is inventory position. Last week, reviewing statements from 100 leading corporations (all having inventories of $1,000,000 or more), Manhattan's National City Bank found cause for optimism: their inventories were off an average of 10% from a year ago, 15% from the peak of the Depression II inventory glut in September 1937. Both in its evidence and its opinion. National City thus reflected the virtual consensus among businessmen that the inventory problem, so severe year ago, is now well in hand...
This, plus Tennessee Electric Power's cash reserves, was just enough to take care of its $72,000,000 in senior securities, but left nothing for the common stock. Since C. & S. owns 99% of the common, Bear Willkie roared at the end of his chain. Last fall, baited anew by a Congressional committee investigating TVA, he countered by suggesting that SEC arbitrate the issue, offered to pay all appraisal expenses...