Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
...some respects, the Dow-Jones averages-which record the rise & fall of 65 (out of 1,398) stocks on the Big Board-did not show the true strength of the baby bull market. Day after day last week, scores of stocks hit new highs for 1947-48 and stayed there. The booming oils had even passed their 1929 peak...
...barometer, the stock market has proved none too accurate, notably in the last two years. Back in 1937, the market fall was far worse than the drop in production; since 1942, the market has been much lower-in comparison with the gross national product-than it was even in the dark days of 1932 (see chart). The Dow-Jones industrials, now earning even more ($20 a share) than they did in 1929, are selling for only half as much...
...memo to the press" indicated that the Government was about to buy large quantities of lard for export. The memo had been put on a table with a pile of official releases, in the Department of Agriculture's Washington newsroom, one day last fall. But there was something phony about it: it had none of the usual headings or signatures. When newsmen questioned its authorship, the Department began investigating and finally traced it to a commodity trader named Ralph W. Moore, onetime lobbyist and crony of Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, who also likes to speculate in commodities...
Blood is set in the foothill country of the French Alps, where Author Stein and Companion Alice B. Toklas used to spend their summers. Many characters wander into the book and as casually wander out, never to be heard from again. Did the victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...