Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rings forth from our hearts On and on without end...
...table, and by means of a high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque, it is held at one end of its arc by a string which is then burned through...
...Part I produced the following gloomy statistics: 1) since 1929 assets of investment trusts have shriveled from $7,000,000,000 to $3,700,000,000; 2) of 1,272 investment companies existing at one time or another between 1927 and 1936, only 961 were still active at the end of 1936; 3) between 1927 and 1935, 400 investment trusts expired and 22 of these showed losses to security holders of $510,000,000 (90% of their stake...
Speculative buying of hides, however, has centred in New York where nine years ago a market in hide futures was started for hedging operations. Last week, Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, eyeing New York's success, started a hide futures market too. At the end of the first day Chicago's new market had handled $79,000 worth of business, precisely half the New York total...
Primitive and scientific explanations aside, by last week 16,500 inhabitants of the northwestern mountains of India had died in a cholera epidemic. Frantic sanitarians had vaccinated 600,000 persons, doused thousands of wells with germicidal potassium permanganate to halt an epidemic which began the end of April. Nonetheless, the epidemic has spread northwesterly into Afghanistan...