Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble-shooter Davis could do nothing to stop the sickening fall of rubber from its 1925 high of $1.25 a pound to 2⅛? a pound in 1932, but he could do a little to lighten the effect of huge inventory losses on his company. He did it by slashing his inventory and accounts receivable (i. e., by selling part of his business) and the proceeds he applied to reducing the funded debt, thereby saving interest charges. While the deficit piled up and stockholders gave up, he wiped out $40,000,000 of that debt in three years. Meanwhile...
...closing. Low in spirit but not so taciturn was Chairman William A. Charles. Behind his roller-top desk, looking like a baffled and unhappy small-town grocer, this tall, grey-haired, 70-year-old son of the store's founder talked of Charles & Co.'s rise & fall...
...massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...
...books like Quincy Howe's and Margaret Halsey's, English reviewers have an air of fixed agreeable tolerance. How they would take The Decline and Fall of the British Empire will never be known, since it will not be published in England. The most vehement book of the year, it consists of 263 pages of denunciation of England and all things English, her politics, smugness, selfishness, morals-even her birth rate...
...novel Europa, Robert Briffault was born in London 62 years ago, practiced medicine in New Zealand, was twice decorated during the War. When the Munich Pact was signed, he returned his decorations to the King. Under its grand title and despite isolated passages of startling invective, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire seems petty, and its criticism is so undiscriminating that readers may fear Briffault would not like the English even if they were good...