Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first year of the Gold Rush. Now the oldest silk company in the U. S., Belding Heminway accounted for one-half the country's spool silk and no small share of its fabrics and hosiery. Nevertheless, Belding languished throughout the most florid years of the New Era. The net result of the bankers' touch was a deficit each year from 1928 through 1932, a decline in assets from $14,000,000 to $4,000,000 and a low for the stock...
News reports from widely scattered cities indicate that the forces of justice are continuing to track down the gentlemen who in our pre-bank-crash era speculated with other people's money or defrauded thousands with their exceedingly watery stocks. The public momentarily roused from its usually complacent lethargy, is clamoring loudly for reforms in banking inspection that recent revelations have shown to be seriously needed. If the clamour persists, some constructive legislation may be forced upon the more or less indifferent state legislatures...
...cast as well as the atmosphere of the picture centers around him. It is fortunate for the players are unable to come up to this standard. Norma Shearer lends sentiment and charm to the portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett, which adapts itself rather well to the mid-Victorian era, but as usual her emotions are more shimmering than deep. Her bursting good-health is a bit upsetting when applied to a helpless invalid. Frederick March, as her suitor, Robert Browning, succeeds in winning her hand by is a rather doubtful Browning. But few would expect Mr. March to do well...
Harvard's Museum of Mineralogy gave the lie yesterday to a group of ERA workers at Salisbury Beach who claimed that they had escaped death from the skies by the merest chance...
...ERA men claimed that a meteor descended on the beach, missing them by inches, and burying itself in the sand. For several days they charged admission to see the rarity, but their profitmaking was cut short when the stone was sent to Harvard to be analyzed. Experts were puzzled at first, but their bewilderment was short-lived. The "meteor" was nothing more than a clinker from a furnace...